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> ... when it has succeeded in giving us an infinite digit sequence for the output real number.
How can it actually ever succeed then? Infinity never ends.
To me this sounds very similar to lowering temperature. It doesn't sound like it pulls better from grounded-truth but rather more probabilistic in the vector space. Does this jive?
> Mixture of experts (MoE) is a machine learning technique where multiple expert networks (learners) are used to divide a problem space into homogeneous regions.[1] It differs from ensemble techniques in that for MoE, typically only one or a few expert models are run for each input, whereas in ensemble techniques, all models are run on every input.
> For example, calling "how long do mice swim before giving up if you chuck them into a tank of water" is roughly equated to "amount of depression" (this is oversimplified a bit; you correlate a bunch of those measures etc. but still a lot of very weak signals).
Do I understand this? A purely reductionist view of my understanding: this is quantified as "the amount of will to live"? If my understanding is proper, how do you measure this without killing people? I grok that it is an extreme example, I am attempting to glean applicability of such an experiment to humans.
> And even the human black-box stuff in the DSM manuals admits a lot of different subtypes, lots of different and sometimes opposite symptom clusters, etc. It is entirely possible that mechanistically "depression" is a diverse group of mechanisms all boxed up into the most familiar mainstream concept/word.
Totally unrelated, but wife is an LCSW and I've glanced at the DSM. I've become convinced that book is near entirely for insurance purposes, similar to the ICD-10.
ICD-10: W220.2XD: Walked into lamppost, subsequent encounter.
I am under the impression we (science) hasn't definitively determined causation for depression. How can you definitively determine a link without knowing the underlying causes. It would imply you know how it works, doesn't it?
And telling me "just do both" is enforcing your world view and that is precisely what we're talking about _not_ doing.
I think the thing you were looking for was more along the lines of a persistent autonomous agent.