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question:what-must-be-true-in-order-that-a-speech-act-of-a-given-kind-be-successfully-performedWhat must be true in order that a speech act of a given kind be successfully performed?
Key question shared with philosophers about successful speech acts.
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- Endorsement of Dorschel's authority condition for orders.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Many uses of speech acts do not require human-level intelligence for programs to perform them.claim0.790Key contention of paper: Elephant 2000 can support varying levels of AI capability without requiring full human intelligence.
- McCarthy's fundamental position: most important features of speech acts are independent of whether agents are human or machine.
- Speculation about future extensions.
- Claim about designing institutions for program speech acts.
- Key consequence: GPT's power comes from simulating something contingent.