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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

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Re: Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

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Large companies like Google and Facebook will easily be able adapt to the change. They have an army of lawyers and workforce for this. Smaller startup? They will face challenges. Especially European ones. Most possibly, this "innovation" will end up as one more pop-up with "Accept or Leave" message on every website you are visiting from Europe for the first time.

Re: Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

I was thinking more along the lines that if our minds process outside information in a way that makes sense of that information, partially through simulating it, it does not seem so strange if the structures end up matching the outside structures through some form of convergent evolution. From a cursory reading of that article I do not see it argue the same thing.

That the universe is the best simulator of itself? That say, simulating water flowing through a pipe, the system doing the simulation re-formulates itself into something that resembles the pipe and the water?

Re: Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking more along the lines that if our minds process outside information in a way that makes sense of that information, partially through simulating it, it does not seem so strange if the structures end up matching the outside structures through some form of convergent evolution. From a cursory reading of that article I do not see it argue the same thing.

That the universe is the best simulator of itself? That say, simulating water flowing through a pipe, the system doing the simulation re-formulates itself into something that resembles the pipe and the water?

> That the universe is the best simulator of itself?

What is this even supposed to mean? Also, "pipe" and "water" are ridiculously high level constructs, categorisations made by humans. Neither says anything about structures inherent to the universe.

I mean that when working with symmetries, information flow, and fundamental building blocks, certain structures just tend to pop up naturally. Hence fractals and geometrically shapes in places where you might not expect them. Or how laws of thermodynamics suddenly seems to be everywhere in biology all of a sudden now that we started looking[0][1].

[0] http://ecologicalsociology.blogspot.de/2010/11/geoffrey-west...

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermodynamic-answer-to-why...

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