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That's some industrial grade apophenia, pareidolia, and good old fashioned cognitive dissonance. The MSSS imagery makes it very plane that the Cydonian face is

That's some industrial grade apophenia, pareidolia, and good old fashioned cognitive dissonance. The MSSS imagery makes it very plane that the Cydonian face is just a hill. But no, they put some white arrows pointing to nothing and claim it's evidence of a made up thing.

Pompidou 3y ago
> That's some industrial grade apophenia In this case, that's some industrial grade bullshit !
StackOverlord 3y ago
Then let's make some industrial grade apophenia machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg https://youtu.be/0Y8v3X6Oft4 https://youtu.be/0Y8v3X6Oft4 I'd be really interested in generating on the fly numerical apophenia like those. In fact I dabbled into doing exactly that using GPT to code a python script. I ran L-BFGS-B on a unit pyramid to optimize its basic dimensions (height, base-length, set to 1 initially) so that it matches the pyramid equations [1]. As a result I get the pyramid's actual dimensions. My synthetic pyramid is slightly better than the actual pyramid when it comes to matching the "pyramid equations". I know this is tautological, yet when I observe the actual pyramid dimensions and where it fits on the gradient magnitude graph my script[2] provides, it falls right when the gradient becomes almost flat. That made me want to explore further, and I attempted to come up with my own crackpot equations using symbolic regression/genetic programming[3]. The ultimate goal: a VR app, let's call it the "conspiracy lens". [1]https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-constants/ https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-const... [2]https://pastebin.com/TsUtcWAa https://pastebin.com/TsUtcWAa [3]https://pastebin.com/9CEU76K6 https://pastebin.com/9CEU76K6 There's a field studying this kind of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory And look what I found: https://journals.openedition.org/tipa/3068 https://journals.openedition.org/tipa/3068 – Louis de Saussure & Tim Wharton, 2019 Seems like the de Saussure family still has a very robust scientific tradition. The most famous of the de Saussure, Ferdinand, founder of synchronic linguistics, got trapped into an apophenia trap with his theory of "hypograms" underlying saturnian verses. More at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sem-2016-0158/html https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sem-2016-0158...

Pompidou 3y ago

> That's some industrial grade apophenia In this case, that's some industrial grade bullshit !

StackOverlord 3y ago

Then let's make some industrial grade apophenia machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg https://youtu.be/0Y8v3X6Oft4 https://youtu.be/0Y8v3X6Oft4 I'd be really interested in generating on the fly numerical apophenia like those. In fact I dabbled into doing exactly that using GPT to code a python script. I ran L-BFGS-B on a unit pyramid to optimize its basic dimensions (height, base-length, set to 1 initially) so that it matches the pyramid equations [1]. As a result I get the pyramid's actual dimensions. My synthetic pyramid is slightly better than the actual pyramid when it comes to matching the "pyramid equations". I know this is tautological, yet when I observe the actual pyramid dimensions and where it fits on the gradient magnitude graph my script[2] provides, it falls right when the gradient becomes almost flat. That made me want to explore further, and I attempted to come up with my own crackpot equations using symbolic regression/genetic programming[3]. The ultimate goal: a VR app, let's call it the "conspiracy lens". [1]https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-constants/ https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-const... [2]https://pastebin.com/TsUtcWAa https://pastebin.com/TsUtcWAa [3]https://pastebin.com/9CEU76K6 https://pastebin.com/9CEU76K6 There's a field studying this kind of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory And look what I found: https://journals.openedition.org/tipa/3068 https://journals.openedition.org/tipa/3068 – Louis de Saussure & Tim Wharton, 2019 Seems like the de Saussure family still has a very robust scientific tradition. The most famous of the de Saussure, Ferdinand, founder of synchronic linguistics, got trapped into an apophenia trap with his theory of "hypograms" underlying saturnian verses. More at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sem-2016-0158/html https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sem-2016-0158...