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• @atroyn Anton on x

  philosopher of language john searle, most well known for his ‘chinese room’ thought experiment, lived to see llms but died alone and disgraced because of unsubstantiated accusations brought by a grad student during peak metoo hysteria. nobody at cal had ever been held to account.…

• @eigenrobot @eigenrobot on x

  anyway no one has been held to account for this crime nor God knows how many like it and no one in the university system can be made to care. draw your own conclusions

• @teortaxestex @teortaxestex on x

  Peak Woke was quite bad. They may appear sympathetic now that they're weak politically and the other side is relishing revenge. But it must not be forgotten how much wanton cruelty they are guilty of; people and families they broke for no reason. Many of them still hold offices.

• @thatguybg Brett Goldstein on x

  can't believe john searle passed away I was lucky enough to take classes from him at berkeley his chinese room argument is still my go-to for discussing AI consciousness (it's as conscious as this room in this picture is) [image]

• @romanyam Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on x

  RIP John Searle (1932-2025) [image]

• @amitorit Amit Ray on bluesky

  His debates with Derrida are the stuff of legend, but his career ended in ignominy.

• @rajivmote Rajiv Moté on bluesky

  I never imagined, back when I first read it, how much Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment would come up when discussing the “intelligence” of modern technology today.  [embedded post]

• @plantmaize SJ Zanolini on bluesky

  In Spring 2014 Searle gave an endowed lecture at UC Berkeley on universal human rights.  Somehow his opening anecdote involved a lot of carping about the stoner kids who would toke up downwind of his office off Strawberry Creek.  Never told him it was me, I was one of those kids …

• @danfalk Dan Falk on bluesky

  1/10 In his famous “Chinese room” thought experiment, John Searle (1932-2025) argued there must be more to minds than computation.  Let's look at the objections to that argument — but first, a 3-min clip from my 2001 interview w.  Searle, in which he lays it out: 🧵 #philosophy …