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Phrenology makes a hearty comeback this time with the help of AI. Psychology based on the skull vs psychology based on the face and "micro-expressions" http:/
by devoply 7y ago
Phrenology makes a hearty comeback this time with the help of AI.
Psychology based on the skull vs psychology based on the face and "micro-expressions"
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/phrenology/intro.html http://www.victorianweb.org/science/phrenology/intro.html
1.The brain is the organ of the mind.
2. The mind is composed of multiple distinct, innate faculties.
3. Because they are distinct, each faculty must have a separate seat or "organ" in the brain.
4. The size of an organ, other things being equal, is a measure of its power.
5. The shape of the brain is determined by the development of the various organs.
6. As the skull takes its shape from the brain, the surface of the skull can be read as an accurate index of psychological aptitudes and tendencies.
- vibrato 7y agoBiology is a social construct of colonial white supremacism
- owens99 7y ago#4, 5, 6 are very dubious. Elephants have huge brains yet they don’t rule the world.
- dredmorbius 7y agoOther things aren't equal. Brain size correlates strongly with body size. Also: Phrenology is bunkum.
- hirundo 7y agoIt's quite a bit different in that AIs don't make such chains of reasoning. They just "notice" correlations between inputs and training data with no regard to mechanism. We might construct a chain of causation between a microexpression -> social status -> stress -> blood pressure -> life expectancy, but the AI doesn't and doesn't care. It's about as likely to judge by the lighting of the photo as the presumed character of the subject. Such AI judgement may be as or more racist than human judgement, given that they could make correlations based on immutable characteristics. In a sense they're only as biased as the training data, but that may also be true of many human racists.