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The weird (scary?) point will be when we figure out how to subtly present adversarial information to the brain that will be coded in a way that collides with so
by robmccoll 5y ago
The weird (scary?) point will be when we figure out how to subtly present adversarial information to the brain that will be coded in a way that collides with some target information to induce false recognition/ memories.
- axg11 5y agoRead "The Mind is Flat" - your idea is a theme of the book. We already have a few examples of adversarial information for humans: optical illusions being the most widely discussed.
- robmccoll 5y agoWow - just watched a talk Nick Chater gave. Sounds like an interesting model for consciousness. I'll check it out. Thanks.
- stackbutterflow 5y agoSo I remember reading somewhere, probably on HN, that we don't remember real facts but instead we remember our last call of a particular memory. I've hijacked some unpleasant memories that way. I'll add some colors, a round ball bouncing, all kind of stuff that'll alter the memory. It doesn't make it totally disappear but it kinda smoothen it.
- robmccoll 5y agoNice to know that there's an upside to this idea :-)
- ben_w 5y agoI think this is already possible. I have seen research where false memories were induced into people by photoshopping childhood images of those people into events that did not happen to them — and worse, in 16% of cases just by showing adverts of things that could not happen such as meeting Bugs Bunny at Disney World (wrong franchise): http://people.uncw.edu/tothj/PSY510/Loftus-Memory%20for%20Things%20Unseen-CD-2004.pdf http://people.uncw.edu/tothj/PSY510/Loftus-Memory%20for%20Th...
- robmccoll 5y agoFascinating - thanks for the article. It's strange to think that however much we think that we're completely rational and can trust our own memories, we're more like malleable rationalizing machines.