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@evan I'm willing to discard "machine", but for me the central question is: can we construct something that works sufficiently like the brain that it can replace humans in complex tasks?

The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. It is the product of 4 billion years of evolution, the last couple million of which happened in the context of groups that were hunting big game and killing one another. In a multiverse (see anthropic principle) where that process only needed to produce "us" once.

We can't even simulate a brain. To think we can construct something with similar functionality despite that requires believing most of that complexity is incidental or can be produced through some relatively simple optimization procedure. Both of which are huge leaps unjustified by any evidence. All we've managed to show is that humans have a strong tendency to anthropomorphize, which of course we already knew.

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@evan Wikipedia: "A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation)."

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That picture of the pickup truck with the two American flags in the back should have been all over the media, but ironically the only place I saw it was the New York Post.

Trump claimed that Sanford's attack on the Michigan LDS church was an "attack on Christians", but Sanford was a Trump supporter and almost certainly a Christian himself, and Mormons have been persecuted by Christians for as long as they've existed. This was almost certainly an attack *by* a Christian on people he considered fake Christians.

This repeated pattern of immediately claiming without evidence that mass murderers are leftists and then going silent once it comes out that they are actually right wingers is quite clearly deliberate. Because most people have no attention span and by the time the actual identity of the killer is revealed they're paying attention to something else.

Never shut up about all the violence being committed by the right.