levitatorius

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by levitatorius 8mo ago
The post resonates deeply with me. I am a health professional in diagnostics and through the years I have observed different extremes in approaches to solving diagnostic challenges - the one extreme is to rely on "knowing", the ot
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by levitatorius 11mo ago
Yes! If algorithm is conscious (without being alive) then the eaten magic mushroom is also very conscious, judged by it's effect on the subject.
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by levitatorius 2y ago
This! One simple argument is that language is NOT a magical reasoning substance in itself, but a communication medium. It is medium for passing (a) meaning. So first there is a meaningful thought (worth of sharing), then an agent puts a SIG
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by levitatorius 4y ago
I think that there is a possible misconception, that evolution allows (or results in) only in necessary features and thus all phenomenons must be a consequence of evolutionary advantage. Yet, if genetic changes are random (at least some of
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by levitatorius 4y ago
Yes, you mean why beauty has to be utilitarian :)
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by levitatorius 4y ago
What do you think is missing then? Unsupervised learning == general intelligence?
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by levitatorius 4y ago
It's fascinating that we have simple primitives or notions of analysis, deduction, causation, yet no artificial system where those features of intelligence emerge on their own.
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by levitatorius 5y ago
Aaaand the ultimate question: if electric fields are controlling the neurons, what (or who?) contols the electric fields?
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by levitatorius 6y ago
I am a practicing pathologist and I have seen many attempts and publications to use ML in pathology, which all lack in these aspects: 1. ML is trained on simplified sets (preselected ROIs, limited choice of diagnoses), 2. ML is biased by th