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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 06:05:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross I think it's also important to remember that he came up with it when the number of computers in the world was like, two? He didn't have the massive amount of experience we do with computers pretending to be humans.

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 06:05:41 JST Charlie Stross

     Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

     (Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
     https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206