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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by johnisgood on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:58PM (#21054207)
> Can you identify a friendly or sick or lazy dog just by looking? No.

Yes you can do that. To put it extremely simply: define what "friendly", "sick", and "lazy" means in terms of behavior, then observe the dog's behaviors.

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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by lazyasciiart on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:00PM (#21062248)
A sleeping dog still possesses those characteristics, but has no behaviors.
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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by mikelyons on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:18PM (#21074870)
A dog sleeping amidst lots of stimuli known to excite dogs is exhibiting a lazy, sick or perhaps even unfriendly behavior.

Edit: sleeping is a behavior.

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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by lazyasciiart on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:56PM (#21075361)
You can say exactly the same thing about a person, which seems to support my point.
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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by mikelyons on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:18PM (#21082479)
I must have misunderstood, upon second read you seem to say something similar to, "nothing is as it appears" no?
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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by lazyasciiart on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:50AM (#21088835)
Mmm, I think I was going for "lots of things cannot be understood completely by appearance, it is not unique to humans"
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