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  • Yet language and abstraction are the core of intelligence. You cannot have intelligence without 2 way communication, and if anything, your brain contains exactly that dictionary you describe. Ask any verbal autistic person, and 90% of their conversations are scripted to a fault. However, there’s another component to intelligence that the Turing Test just scrapes against. I’m not philosophical enough to identify it, but it seems like the turing test is looking for lightning by listening for rumbling that might mean thunder.



  • Here’s an obsure one: every N64 game I had as a kid used 2 of the 3 N64 grips. You got either Dpad + face buttons, stick + face buttons (most common), and dpad + stick (sim weirdos). So you took the grip that each game required. However, to unlock the minigames and half of the features of Pokemon Stadium, you needed to use the dpad to select other overworld items. I owned the game for 2 years having only played half of it.






  • This is by design. Right now they see the future in 3 options. The first and present course sees China as a newest member of a seniorally-locked international economic sphere where China sees it’s place in that hierarchy as beneath them. The second sees China end up like Russia for resisting that outcome, complete with Cold War race-spending and proxy conflicts. Now, they’re pushing for a third option: building up as many small nations into a single opposing economic sphere against the West, banking on both the continued decline of Western markets while theirs somehow does not collapse, and that the West will not act against them so long as they avoid using blatant force as Russia had.