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Just because everyone's seeing the same pattern in random data doesn't mean there's a pattern at all. For very good evolutionary reasons, humans are extraordin
by SeanLuke 5y ago
Just because everyone's seeing the same pattern in random data doesn't mean there's a pattern at all. For very good evolutionary reasons, humans are extraordinarily good pattern-recognition machines: we see ghosts in data when nothing exists. Our collective false positives are quite high.