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The reason for my final question at the end is this: can AI emerge out of AB? The child eventually grows up and (hopefully) stops bullshitting everything. But, do they actually stop bullshitting, or is the human ability to reason itself somehow built out of bullshit?

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That's a very good question. The child eventually learns to stop using symbols and instead begins to copy the shapes, negative spaces, curves, etc. in front of them and makes an assemblage of otherwise-meaningless shapes, lines, curves which is interpreted by viewers as a representation of the real thing. Does AI have the potential to do that? I don't know.

Nobody grows out of your definition of bullshit - doing things that they think others want to see.

But that definition is ... well bullshit. Bullshitting is a deliberate deceptive act. Children aren't being deliberately deceptive when they come up with nonsense answers to questions they don't understand.

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