Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain — Backchannel — Medium ‘With unsupervised learning, only in the latter stages would the system’s human masters intervene, by labeling the more desirable outputs and rewarding successful outcomes. “Think about little kids, when they learn to recognize cows,” says Hinton. “It’s not like they had a million different […]

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We Know How You Feel “But as she delved into the neuroscience literature she became convinced that reasoning and emotion were inseparable: just as too much emotion could cause irrational thinking, so could too little. Brain injuries specific to emotional processing robbed people of their capacity to make decisions, see the bigger picture, exercise common […]

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The Toxoplasma Of Rage “A moral action that can be taken just as well by an outgroup member as an ingroup member is crappy signaling and crappy identity politics. If you want to signal how strongly you believe in taking victims seriously, you talk about it in the context of the least credible case you […]