My understanding is that Turing was saying that whether a machine passes the test is an empirical question; whether a machine "thinks" cannot be well defined except in relation to that question.

"So I guess the lesson is … never give up your reward to someone else in your alliance or that person will organize to immediately get you voted out."

"Can" as in "The American government claims to have the authority" or "can" as in "it's actual a realistic possibility"?

There was a Big Brother season where one of the houseguests thought the others would underestimate her if she claimed to be only 20. Apparently none of them of were paying attention to the contestant requirements (minimum 21) or thought to say "Hey, isn't an alcohol-based reward a rather common reward on this show?"

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They also had one on Numbers, and there have likely been other ones.

Well, when one of the "parents" is Sherlock, it's rather difficult to argue with the premise that a second "parent" would be beneficial. And I'm rather skeptical of the claim that number of parents is irrelevant.

Is that reference to Nautilus, or a different procedural?

Or Hogwarts?

Would this be an appropriate occasion to post "Simmmmmmmms!"? His acting wasn't horrible, but it was a bit wooden.

If John Hannah speaks a non-rhotic version of English, he could have easily considered the word he was saying to be "arse", even if what he said would be perceived by a rhotic speaker as "ass".

Plus, was there really any IT work needed, other than "Hmmm, someone seems to have cut through this cable. Better replace it."?

If you think this sounds dangerous, don't worry! An armed guard will accompany you and protect you from any armed agents of rival AIs! Not that there's any armed agents of rival AIs to worry about. Purely a precautionary measure. Don't worry. It's perfectly safe.

They got a grant from the governor (or governor-elect? Come to think of it, unless he's been inaugurated, what's he doing handing out grants?), so that implies some public records.

I think perhaps Alexa should have bolded the username. With the rise of names that aren't capitalized, it can be hard to distinguish them.

And then there's the question "If 'remember what we're up against, we might have to do things that aren't nice' works as an excuse for Team Machine, why doesn't it work for Samaritan?"

It reminded me of the Michael/Nikita situation, although they are more limited in adding people to the team, seeing as how adding another "don't notice this person" server would be rather difficult.

I wonder how certain Josh was about the statue at the immunity challenge. Isn't the fact that two out of three of the other players thought the previous symbol was temple, a really big clue that the current symbol is temple?

Yeah, several days edited down to an hour (and in this case, there presumably was footage from more than three days) can't really be relied on for giving an accurate account.

"Hell, Alicia is taking money from the man"