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That sounds racist.... right?
Time to think of a new name? Like we dont call Brazilian nuts by their "other" name anymore.
Edit: oh, I cant compare those?
Well how about a different term that has fallen out of use: "sitting Indian style". Yea we dont call it that anymore, even if it was common childhood name. We grow up, we recognize that unnecessary racial assignment is a racist.
So, no, I dont think the defense of "thats just we called it as kids" is a valid reason to keep saying it today. Youre just perpetuating "thats just how people talked", "its from a different time" normalization and casual racism.
The original thought experiment was about Chinese, so it's more of a reference than deliberate racism. It's a famous philosophical debate about whether A.I. can be conscious, or if it just simulates understanding.
Further reading
That's really a flawed analogy, though. In this analogy, the man isn't passing the Chinese Turing Test -- the program is passing the Turing Test. The man is just the hardware that the program is running on.
It's not a question of whether the man (the hardware) has any understanding. What you want to know is if the program has any understanding. Honestly, it seems like deliberately muddying the issue by proposing this hypothetical 'intelligent hardware' and using it to distract from the actual question about the software's intelligence.
If I'm running a supposedly 'intelligent' AI on my 3090, you can't refute that by pointing out that the 3090 is not intelligent on its own, without software.
In this situation, neither the hardware (man) nor software (program / instructions) has any understanding. The man is blindly following instructions, while the program is simply… instructions. Searle was trying to highlight that neither understanding nor consciousness arises automatically just by having a fancy and convincing output generator.
Another nice, more recent quote:
It's not my analogy, I take no credit for it. If you follow the link to Stanford Philosophy, there's plenty of discourse; including pretty much every counterargument possible. It's an interesting read.
Wow, thank you for this! Never knew about this one. Why the heck did anyone downvote your helpful comment?
I remove my own upvote from my comments lol
That's not what Chinese whispers is, though.
It's what I grew up calling telephone.
Telephone is where you start with a short phrase and whisper it into the next person's ear. Then that continues for everyone, and what the last person says out loud has nothing to do with the original statement.
Your defense is "thats just what they called it back then" as though were forced to keep calling it the same thing today. Pass, lazy justification for casual racism.
Like, shocker, people 40-50 years ago we pretty loose with racist caricatures...
A mention of Chinese ethnicity or language is not racism you doofus.
As to your other mentioned example, 'sitting indian style' is racist because
A) indian as a reference to native americans is a racist term
B) it codes behaviour to ethnicity and thus serves as grounds for stereotypization
While referencing a Chinese room is not racism, as Chinese is a perfectly valid ethnicity, and they do have rooms in China. Additionally its a reference to a thought experiment, where the Chinese part refers to Chinese characters. Would 'the hanzi script mandarin room experiment' be more accurate? Not even necessarily, seems most people use hanzi writing interchangeable with the term 'Chinese characters'
In conclusion: Youre too stupid to understand the nuances of this and therefore probably shouldnt get into discussions of racism with other people.
Lotta words to say you just wanna be racist.
Really not beating the 'too stupid to comment on the issue' allegations with that comment sweaty
Not really beating the casual racist with your flippant insults and uncivil responses.
Ok, so I can’t tell if you’re trolling or being intentionally dense for the sake of outrage.
Zarobi commented on why it’s called The Chinese Room Experiment, which is because they use Chinese characters as the basis of information passed between outside and inside.
Chinese is used as the basis of the thought experiment because it’s a notoriously difficult language to learn because there’s thousands of different characters and pronunciations. You can’t expect the occupant of the room, an English speaker, to be able to pick up on it. They could only select correct answers just by pure chance.
The experiment wouldn’t work with other languages that share a Latin or Germanic base as the occupant could, with some effort, puzzle out some of the words. For example:
In either case, I can’t really take you seriously when your profile picture is from that scene in Clerks 2
For those who haven’t seen Clerks 2
Lol those things are obviously not the same. Being rude is also not racism honey 😂
This reminds me of my ex’s mom describing someone as Mexican, then asking “Is that racist?” Well, now it is, Karen (her actual name).
Any mention of an ethnicity other than white isn’t racist. You’re racist for thinking it is.
It's not racist lol. In case you need a refresher on the definition of racism:
There's no prejudice or discrimination at all. It doesn't even have anything to do with the culture or language. It could really be any language that the person in the room doesn't understand, like Klingon, Latin, or whatever. Save your energy for actually racist phrases like "Chinesium" etc
Okay buddy. Weird hill to die on.
It's also called the telephone game but that doesn't work with the Chinese room pun.
That's not really a fair comparison, because "Chinese" is not a slur; it's the preferred adjective (just like "Brazilian").
I do think it's a bit racist though, because it specifically exoticizes/others Chinese people/things.
I once knew a Mexican girl who went by "China" ("Chinese" in Spanish) because she was born with blonde hair, which makes no sense except that "Chinese" is used as a synonym for "weird".
it's also the common name of the language, which is probably what the experiment was actually referencing
I've always seen it referred as 'Chinese Whispers'.
Before that it was called 'Russian Gossip'.
ive only ever seen it called a game of telephone idk where the racial part came from
It was telephone for me growing up in 90s Western Canada.
Broken telephone is what it sounds like you guys are talking about.
90s, eastern Canada
Different names in different places. I grew up calling it Chinese Whispers.
Ugh, my gram does. We pick them out of the holiday but mix now
Do Chinese whiskers have braces?
Do Siamese sisters get whiskers in stasis?