Introduction

AstralCortex10 is an audio version of Scott Alexander's sub-stack. This post has a whole bunch of different characters in it. It's very hard to keep track of if I don't do voices, so I've done voices. The year is 2028 and this is Turing Test, the game show that separates man from machine. Our star tonight is Dr. Andrea Mann, a generative linguist at the University of California, Berkeley. She'll face five hidden contestants, codenamed Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Spirit. One will be a human telling the truth about their humanity; one will be an AI pretending to be a human,. And one will be