#extrapolation — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Becca @[email protected] · 2025-06-20 · 12:13 UTC

People take actions that are bad for the rest of us; and when one takes that action and extrapolates some uncontrollable characteristic of that person (e.g., hair color) to be the root cause/marker for the bad action, and then uses it as a proxy for the bad act and then calls those people evil...

congrats, they've fucked up and broke society by being a lazy bigot.

#stereotypes #extrapolation #MagicalThinking

#stereotypes #extrapolation #magicalthinking

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-06-16 · 21:50 UTC

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 10 (1963)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/76…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #details #difference #exception #experience #extrapolation #history #learning #lessons #past #precedent #present #uniqueness

#history #quotes #quote #learning #details #past

PLOS Biology @[email protected] · 2025-05-27 · 08:56 UTC

It takes time for the #brain to process information, so how can we catch a flying ball? This study provides evidence of multi-stage #motion #extrapolation occurring in the #HumanBrain, shifting the represented position of moving objects closer to real time @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Fm83Fc

#brain #motion #extrapolation #humanbrain

Daniele de Rigo @[email protected] · 2024-09-26 · 21:50 UTC

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Recent commentary [1]:
escalating concern over the use of the more powerful #chatbots when they are used to go beyond the #knowledge of the human expert who uses them, rather than for simply pre-processing in a controlled way within the domain of human-expert knowledge.

1. ⁠What is often called "hallucination/confabulation” (i.e. severe #extrapolation #uncertainty and #overfitting by the chatbot model) is apparently becoming increasingly realistic with a declining human ability to detect it

#chatbots #knowledge #extrapolation #uncertainty #overfitting