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Your brain was first trained by reading all of the Internet?

Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.




> Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.

Given the amount of ink spilled on the question, gotta disagree with you there.


For the record, that wasn't me, it's a famous quote from Edsger Dijkstra.


Endless ink has been spilled on the most banal and useless things. Deconstructing ice cream and physical beauty from a Marxist-feminist race-conscious postmodern perspective.


Except one is clearly a niche question, and the other has repeatedly captured the world's imagination and spilled orders of magnitude more ink.


Is it interesting to ponder if the Earth is flat?




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