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This was fascinating to watch and felt like watching a video recording of a dream. Seeing the world through approximations instead of details.

• Swizec 5y ago
  You’re gonna love learning about optical illusions – bugs in our visual processing. We already see the world through approximation. Obvious example: saccadic masking. Your brain shuts off visual processing during rapid eye movements[1]. You don’t notice the movement, the blur, nor the dropped frames. Brain fills it back in. Another cool one is how we deal with the blind spot in our eyes. Brain fills it in with a continuation of what’s around the blind spot. The area is big enough to hide a whole car or even a large truck at certain angles/distances. That’s why you have to turn your head when driving, just your eyes isn’t enough. You’ll get stuff flying at you out of your blind spot. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
• psychomugs 5y ago
  The world models paper directly addresses seeing the world as an approximation [1], though in the other direction of compressing the world into a smaller but workable latent space by autoencoding. [1] https://worldmodels.github.io/ https://worldmodels.github.io/
• Agentlien 5y ago
  On a tangent, I've experimented a lot with lucid dreaming and dream clarity as well as our recollection of it varies a lot depending on how deep asleep you are. When I'm calm and the dream is stable the visuals are incredibly sharp and detailed. I'm often amazed how lifelike it is. One issue seems to be that dreams get fuzzy as we start to wake up and our memory of dreams is often seen through a fuzzy lens even if things were clear during the dream itself. I've especially noticed this last part when being amazed at the detail and describing it to myself as I inspect it. Then I wake up and the memories are hazy and lacking the details I described.