“Misnomers are lethal to the possibilities of intelligence. Especially if the concepts of quantification or intelligence are involved.

Quantum ‘mechanics’ is absolutely non-mechanical. It’s not ‘quantum’ either. There’s nothing ‘mechanical’ about it at all. It should be called ‘nonquantum nonmechanics’ or even ‘total violation of quantification and mechanics’.

Similarly ‘artificial intelligence’ is not intelligence, and should be called ‘cascading heuristic database curation’.”

— infraheard