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Fair enough. I guess I don't understand what non-conscious thought is supposed to be, exactly.
by postfuturist 16y ago
Fair enough.
I guess I don't understand what non-conscious thought is supposed to be, exactly.
- kragen 16y agoIt would be great if there was an algorithm that would pick out the best 15 HN comments for me to read each morning, instead of relying on other people's votes. That algorithm would necessarily have to process human language at a high enough level to distinguish good from bad. But would it necessarily have to be self-aware, considering the absurdity of its existence in its off-hours? We don't know. Certainly there are programs today doing many tasks that once we would have thought required a self-aware entity; composing listenable music, translating badly between human languages, and part-of-speech tagging, to name a few.