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What kind of like this? [1] I know this is a silly thing to compare but haven't we all had huge issues with security vulnerabilities involving processors guess
by jamal-kumar 4y ago
What kind of like this? [1]
I know this is a silly thing to compare but haven't we all had huge issues with security vulnerabilities involving processors guessing what's next since like 2018? [2]
I wonder if there's any general parallels between any potential information processing system and the concept that to make it go faster you can do this. I didn't read through the whole neuroscience article yet but that's definitely the first thing that came to mind.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
- taskforcegemini 4y agoDon't we all base our actions by guesstimating what the outcome will be?
- jamal-kumar 4y agoMy point is that this exact guessing of what might come next is something that is universally exploitable in systems which do this
- xjay 4y agoThere is something similar in Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow. In my words, 1) The sender asks "how many X are there" (assuming that the recipient also knows that the answer is a large quantity). The recipient's mind indirectly loads and caches the concept of a large quantity. 2) The sender changes the "discussion point" to something different that also involves a quantity, however, because the original impression of the first quantity lingers, their perception may now be skewed. Link to one such example: Studying Machine Intelligence with Been Kim - #571 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8SuqeH_Mg0&t=755s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8SuqeH_Mg0&t=755s
- jamal-kumar 4y agoYeah it screams established psychological marketing/behavioral economics techniques to me