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Had my suspicions back when strawberry man was poking folks along for the ride, pretty elaborate scheme though. One definitely enhanced by such tools they're trying to hype in the first place! (I seriously imagine some savant 12yo kid in mom's basement who got really good with coding/using LLMs. Kids can really get creative!)

I was always bothering with how the Turing test was so "binary" for how such technologies play out. Human or computer, this-or-that only. AGI, if we achieve it someday (maybe "when"?), it *started with human input* to create it in the first place. Turing make it seem so easy to simply "disconnect" the human element, like one day, when folks are monkeying around with LLM, baam, "Does this unit have a soul?" spits out of the chathbox.

When really... It's the melding (rather than "disconnecting") of the two systems that seems more realistic of an evolutionary path. Human + machine, enhancing together. To me, your post suggests this idea, albeit in a mysterious/trickster sort of environment about who's real and who isn't. But your (altered) diagram of the Turing test with is a perfect representation of this. The Third option of human AND machine!

Great post!!

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