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theweaselking

I love living in the future.

May 08, 2011 16:29

Scientists can induce schizophrenia in computers.Short version: one of the theories of what happens in the minds of people with schizophrenia is that they lose the ability to consider things insignificant, and start "hyperlearning" - forming connections between events and memories that simply aren't there, due to sensory overload ( Read more... )

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Wait, what? unnamed525 May 8 2011, 20:34:39 UTC

Schizophrenics learn too well?

theweaselking May 8 2011, 20:41:12 UTC

"Well" is such an interesting term.

Re: Wait, what? andrewducker May 8 2011, 20:58:48 UTC

They piece information together that they shouldn't have.

"I saw someone in shades look at me funny, and I heard a helicopter fly overhead this morning, and the radio made an odd noise that sounded a little bit like my name, so the Men In Black are watching me."

It's the same process that we all have for piecing the world together out of imperfect information, they're just "better" at finding connections than the rest of us (and presumably worse at discarding ones that are really unlikely).

Re: Wait, what? plantyhamchuk May 8 2011, 21:59:58 UTC

They see patterns everywhere, even ones that don't really exist. I wouldn't use the term "learn" though, eventually the chronics end up with below average intelligence, for reasons not really understood.

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jaundicedaye May 8 2011, 21:14:17 UTC

At least they didn't name the computer "Colossus".

theweaselking May 8 2011, 21:32:40 UTC

Or HAL.

jaundicedaye May 8 2011, 21:38:04 UTC

Those who do not learn from classic Science fiction are condemned to repeat it.

theweaselking May 8 2011, 21:47:29 UTC

You don't induce schizophrenia *in life support*.

Not deliberately, anyway.

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kierthos May 8 2011, 21:48:48 UTC

Yes, let's just give the computers mental problems!

NOTHING BAD CAN EVER COME OF THIS!

whisperkit May 9 2011, 07:26:46 UTC

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.