Well, suppose something told me what I would decide if I gave any matter 15 seconds of consideration. It would be an invaluable tool I might use often, for exa

Well, suppose something told me what I would decide if I gave any matter 15 seconds of consideration. It would be an invaluable tool I might use often, for example for sorting and classifying, throwing out trash and so forth. For example, it would be a fantastic spam classifier, since even after 15 seconds there is no doubt. I could use it to get through hundreds of spam messages easily, or delegate things to appropriate departments and so forth. But it would not give me "x-ray vision", since at the end the day it is the same thing I myself conclude if I give the matter 15 seconds of consideration. Something that I miss - a genuine mail written the way a spam might be ("hey! it was nice to meet you!" in the subject, etc), by a recent acquaintance I forgot I made - would be misclassified as spam. There is no x-ray vision involved here - it's not training on the data - it's training on me! I feel the distinction is an important one.