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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (22 children)

I don't think it's alive, I think it's talking to its self. They're making a Chinese whisper machine, and it will remain so until it has embodiment, subjective and changing goals, and a will of it's own.

That's part of intelligence, but it's still a reverse engineering take on things.

In actuality we have intelligence because our threat detection and social protection/survival goals became abstract enough for self-awareness to occur.

EDIT: Telephone game is what I meant.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 44 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Chinese whisper

Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Thank you for explaining that. I, an American, have never heard the term “Chinese whisper”, but I’ve definitely heard of the telephone game.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s much more awkward as a subject of the crown. I tried explaining the game “telestrations” as pictionary + chinese whispers before I had this knowledge. I didn’t know!!! It’s even right there in the name!!! I swear I’m not racist!!!

(Note: I am of chinese origin and have heard my extended family mangle messages through the telephone. So both names are real to me)

[–] mpk@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As a white British dude the problem is that "Telephone" is an Americanism, so I think the solution is that we find an entirely new name to describe speech-like yet utterly incomprehensible-to-the-listener noises that's completely devoid of cultural appropriation. I suggest "This is all Trump to me". The game could be "Trump Tweets".

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mpk@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Definitely that. "It's all covfefe to me"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago
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