There's a "no more turing tests" tag now.
This might be kinda obvious but we'll just stick it here anyway. Also, shoutout to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acorn_squash, who made a perceptive comment about disability and neurodivergence in the last post.
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(We wrote "no more turing tests" after reading "The Unperson Of 2023" by James Boyle. We wrote the following after posting "no more turing tests".)
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the question "is this human" has expired - it has become a torment of con artists and cash grabbers
the one, perpetually remaking their machines to deceive us
the other, perpetually demanding that we become harder to fake so they can keep selling us to advertisers
the doppelgangers yell, "I am human!"
the marketers yell, "Prove you are human!"
we all tuck ourselves into corners trying to find respite from the noise
why? why are we being yelled at? why for humanity are we being yelled at?
Alan Turing started with "can machines think?" and went from there to "can machines make humans think they are humans?" but listen to his imaginary machines
his machines talk about poetry, arithmetic, chess, Mr. Pickwick and winter's days
his machines speak honestly to their interrogators, try to understand, try to help
our phone makes a noise after half an hour, because we asked it to in a way it understood
our friends speak honestly, because they want to us to know that they miss clubbing, they like umbreon, they think of a sunrise as a sun, rising
why should we put the people who traumatized us in the category with the friends who help us survive? why should we put the machines that exploit us in the category with the machines that help us survive? why is this the split we are asked to make?
why "are you human" instead of "are you good"?
why not "are you good"?
can you tell if something is good to you over a teletype connection? are you good to it?
(edit: followup)
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