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Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:31:05 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.forth Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:
: Andrew,

: My point was that I would be ready to label "intelligent" something that
: couldn't pass Turing's test.

Sure, you could label a teapot intelligent if you wanted but no-one
would have to agree.  The magic of Turing's test is that they would
agree.

: As with most dichotomies, there are cases that make it easy to say
: "This is one" or "This is not", but there are hard cases near the
: border that are difficult to decide.

But that is not an issue with the problem itself, but with your
personal definition of intelligence.  By lowering the bar you create
the dichotomy.

Andrew.