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This is sick. I can't believe as human beings we still do this to other conscious creatures with feelings. It's emotionally traumatizing. It's wrong.
by anon1m0us 7y ago
This is sick. I can't believe as human beings we still do this to other conscious creatures with feelings. It's emotionally traumatizing.
It's wrong.
- mruts 7y agoMaybe we should just test things on people instead?
- nartz 7y agoI'm not sure you are interpreting this correctly - its not like they were torturing the monkey. This is almost the same as studies where they show humans a set of images and ask them which they like the most. Except in this case, they just show them the images and try to measure it. Most of these comments are blowing this out of proportion.
- crishoj 7y agoSubjecting a being to a machine which automatically evolves stimuli to maximise fear response is not torture?
- nartz 7y agoThings are relative here - you know they test experimental pharmaceutical drugs on monkeys too right?
- gipp 7y agoIt's not maximizing "fear response", I'm not sure where everyone in this thread is getting that from. It's maximizing the response of particular visual cortex neurons, in structures where they're shown to be recognizers of specific shapes or concepts. I.e. it's evolving images that this neuron thinks look most like a monkey, or a person. It's not the only neuron making that judgment, and it's all super nonlinear, so ofc it looks strange and distorted. It's literally just doing this but with a real neuron instead of a virtual one: http://yosinski.com/deepvis http://yosinski.com/deepvis
- SilasX 7y agoNot to do whataboutism, but if you're worried about that, factory farms are a lot worse and a lot more common.
- ve55 7y agoYou should see what is done to animals other than monkeys!