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@Annaleen O Butler’s Xenogenesis aliens (Oankali) say the problem is combining hierarchy with intelligence.

@zoltanvarju I think “walks like a duck” empiricism IS wt Turing’s test was getting at (consider gender-game parallel), not computability

@zoltanvarju ah. well, I welcome disagreement with that way of looking at the Turing Test; but I’m willing to stand by it.

@zoltanvarju which post? am I writing about Turing somewhere? (that tweet about the chatbot?)

@zoltanvarju no, Turing himself has always been Turing-complete. It’s Gödel who’s all about the fundamental inconsistencies of Principia.

@StanCarey: @arikaokrent’s ItLoIL: conlangs both beautiful and quixotic; windmills built in; bittersweet lessons for utopia-by-design.

@StanCarey @arikaokrent I loved “Land of IL”. thank you for reminding me of it.

uh-oh. previous tweet may have been a bad idea. spam followers in 3, 2, 1…

also seen today: a wonderful dialog on the Turing test… aptly with a sex chatbot as interlocutor: http://bit.ly/mjPYpi

comparison (old & probably specious but appeals to me) btw Unix nerds; writers/editors/critics http://bit.ly/avrAyn (via @CompSciFact today)