By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026This "ignore the journey, focus on the destination" idea is baked *very deeply* into the way we think about AI. Take the "Turing Test," a complicated and nuanced thought-experiment proposed in 1950. 21/ 1604
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026Over the ensuing 75 years, Turing's thought-experiment has been stripped down into a blunt metric: "Can a chatbot trick a human into thinking it is also human?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin... 22/en.wikipedia.orgTimeline of artificial intelligence - Wikipedia 1414
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026"I mistook a chatbot for a human" and "I took a human for a human" arrive at near-identical places, but they are subtly and importantly different. 23/ 1442
