Millière continues: Odysseus Bot could earn the intentional stance if it pursues persistent goals
raphaelmilliere · x · 2026-09-04
Second half of Raphaël Millière's debate thread: an Odysseus Bot that merely generates Homeric sentences wouldn't fare better than ELIZA under the intentional stance, but one that pursues persistent goals, switches means when they fail, and updates on new information might qualify on interpretationist grounds. Continuation of the same thread — see the earlier post for the core argument.
More from AGI Musings
- Uber and Drivers' Unions Now Unite Against Self-Driving Cars, Sparking AI Productivity Debate — carlbfrey · 2026-09-04
- Mystery Kaggle leaderboard team revealed, speculated to be OpenAI or Anthropic testing agents — JFPuget · 2026-09-04
- Videos lamenting the AI bubble hasn't popped were published a year ago — yacineMTB · 2026-09-04
- AI makes junior developers faster — but does it make them better engineers? — aisatsana__ · 2026-09-04
- Agents Are Getting Scarily Capable, But Moral Sense Can't Be Encoded Into Models — bendee983 · 2026-09-04
- Running #aifails list documents AI's quiet failures to counter cherry-picked demos — gerardsans · 2026-09-04