The Chinese Room comeback: an LLM could explain why that thought experiment is outdated
georgemillo · x · 2026-10-06
A witty rebuttal to the claim that an LLM on wooden gears would show its outputs aren't "a mind": with enough resources, you could run an LLM inside a Chinese Room, and the man inside could explain — in Chinese — that the thought experiment is decades old and less clear-cut than you think.
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