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    Exactly! The question is not whether AI is conscious or forms human-like intentions. The question is whether AI–in carrying out…

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    This is a very strange comment. Searle’s Chinese Room, and his general position on intentionality, were controversial, and criticized (correctly,…

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Free Speech at the Democratic Convention

I think I won’t vote for Kerry/Edwards after all; I think I’ll leave the country (any Canadian universities hiring?). Take a look at the “free speech zones” at the Democratic convention. Now we can understand why the federal judge who heard the challenge to these cages–but nonetheless upheld them–remarked that ,

‘I, at first, thought before taking the view [of the site] that the characterizations of the space as being like an internment camp were litigation hyperbole. I now believe that it’s an understatement. One cannot conceive of what other elements you would put in place to make a space more of an affront to the idea of free expression….”

If every libertarian-minded blogger isn’t on top of this story by morning–that means you, Eugene, and you, David, and you, Stuart–then they ought to just resign from the human race (or at least the libertarian party!).

Unbelievable. Except believe it: it’s real.

(Thanks to Lindsay Beyerstein for the pointer.)

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