astonished that anyone knowledgeable could claim that neural nets are (obviously) an “abstraction of neural processing” when we don’t yet know how brains work. if you don’t know how Y works you can’t really speak with certainty about whether X is an abstraction of Y. Period.https://twitter.com/tyrell_turing/status/1200072223299657728 …
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Maybe that's where we are talking past each other? I consider the Four Humors theory / https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism a terrible abstraction, but wouldn't bother disputing that it was an attempt at abstraction
i did clarify several times, most directly here: https://twitter.com/garymarcus/status/1200237465837064192?s=21 …https://twitter.com/garymarcus/status/1200237465837064192 …
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Seems like a word use preference then?
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by analogy I cringe at calling certain kinds of change “reforms”, e.g. questionable government policies. But there’s a sense in which they are reforms, just perhaps bad ones. Does “abstraction” have a similar positive feel to you?
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