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		cperciva on July 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating shee... The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all. Similarly, nuclear submarines, which lacking all of the critical organs of fish, are completely unable to swim.

fellow_human on July 6, 2021 | [–]

Similarly, a brick has the ability to deep sea dive!

cpach on July 6, 2021 | [–]

The nuclear submarine is just part of our extended phenotype :)

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