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buttercrafttoday at 4:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

How do you know there's not a teapot orbiting the sun?


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red75primetoday at 4:53 PM

There is no reason to think that teapots were sent into orbit or spontaneously formed there.

Likewise, there is no reason to think the brain employs super-Turing or quantum computations that cannot be approximated by LLMs.

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Ma8eetoday at 5:14 PM

To my knowledge there are many millions of teapots orbiting the sun.

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tired-turtletoday at 4:30 PM

You’re right to point that out. The load-bearing seam of your logical retort is the hidden assumption that the teapot is in outer space, not at peace on a kitchen stovetop here on earth. I am sorry I had not considered this fact. \s