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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by andrewflnr on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:57PM (#18765977)
Yeah, and around 800 people a day die in auto accidents in the US. Bringing up cars bolsters my point, which is that "we rely on the brain without understanding it and that works out fine" is not a good argument. So let's be careful. I'm mystified as to why that seems to be controversial.
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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by dontreact on Thursday December 27, 2018 @11:30PM (#18774880)
Are you saying that we should require 2 drivers per car? It seems like at the moment the risk/reward ratio of allowing people to drive a car after getting a license seems to work out well enough. 1 death per 100 million miles driven, and falling.
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Re:Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] by andrewflnr on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:36PM (#18781644)
No. I'm saying

> that "we rely on the brain without understanding it and that works out fine" is not a good argument.

It wasn't my idea to bring cars into it particularly.

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