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Just a random associated though: I wonder if the game of Mafia [1] is somewhat better way to discern intelligences, than the Turing test.

E.g. imagine a game where mafia (AIs) can eliminate actual humans from the game by convincing their fellow humans, that eliminated people are actually the mafia (e.g. AIs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_%28party_game%29



So-so. But it makes emotion a lot more involved. And faking emotions might be hard for humans, it is trivial for AI, and also easy to appeal to our empathy.


The point of the game would be to eliminate AIs, not mafia. No in-game "nights", just a free for all discussion with periodic elimination rounds.


There's ##werewolf@freenode that would provide you the opportunity to see how hard it is to convince others even as humans, there's even a gamemode where the game bot becomes the wolf and people detect that by just some heuristics and gut feeling.




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