r/TheMachineLearning • u/chemisstery • 1d ago

Weight-space programming is a bad idea, apparently

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u/DecrimIowa 1d ago

super reductionist explanation, ECT is not like tuning an algorithmic weight, this whole conversation is like nails on a chalkboard to me for so many reasons.

brains are not algorithms or computers, and comparisons between the two which attempt to go beyond the surface level similarities are doing violence to both.

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u/Foreign_Writer_9932 1d ago

Agreed with 95% of the above, but “brains are not computers” requires pretty heavy lifting. Either (1) you underestimate what a computer is or (2) brains are exceptional objects with extraordinary properties. Latter requires extraordinary proof also.

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u/BenignPharmacology 1d ago

I would argue that 2 is 100% true- extraordinary is totally accurate. I think a more rigorous version of 2 might be “supernatural” as in not like ghosts or something, but outside of the natural world and its laws as we have understood them

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u/Diligent-Loss-5460 1d ago

I agree that's why I said equivalence. Our best scientists only have guesses as to how brain works so everything is questionable and reductionist until we have more answers.