Public transit is common in my 3rd world country and I was surprised how more unsafe it feels in the US. My theory is that it is a by product of the car centric society. For one there is safety in numbers and because it is so underused any one person is more exposed. But also because almost the only people that take the public transit is people who cannot drive or be driven for some way or the other it inevitably have a bigger proportion of mentally unstable people for example.
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People it this thread does not know what the Turing test actually tests. It is Ok, I guess the blame fails on pop culture.
The Turing test is not a test of sentience, it is a test if a machine can fool a human being into thinking it is sentient. And machines have passed this test for decades already. Who would have thought that our predisposition to anthropomorphize everything would make us so susceptible to thinking stuff is sentient 🤷
It is. There is limitations to a Turing machine that a human brain does not have. I expand on that on this other comment here.
There's nothing to indicate the human brain can't be implemented in a Turing machine too.
That is not true, this is a research branch from computer science and math, it is called Computability theory, it deals with the limits of expressiveness for different types of theoretical machines and expressions, and the most expressive of all is the Turing machine, and a Turing machine cannot do some stuff, the classic example is the Halting problem, a computer cannot definitely say if an algorithm ever stops (mathematica proven that it cannot do it), but a human can do so quite easily.
One may think that maybe a Turing Machine cannot do something but can simulate another machine that does, but that is also proven to be impossible, it cannot simulate something more expressive than itself.
In medical/pharmaceutical context isn't "abuse potential" specific to drugs that feels good/get you high... Like street drugs? In the case I think OP means that people is abusing for the results instead. Like people that do too much plastic surgery and loose track of what they first wanted to improve.