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Re:Machine learning is fundamentally conservative by masswerk on Saturday January 04, 2020 @10:02AM (#21955202)
> "Teach AI using our behaviour, AI learns our behaviour. A bit like our children. I'm genuinely confused as to the alternative."

The ultimate goal of teaching, however, is teaching how we arrived at a given behavior. And amongst the most prominent themes in this is dealing with new situations and adapting to change. Teaching is not about imitation, it's about transcending the example.

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Re:Machine learning is fundamentally conservative by jonnypotty on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:55AM (#21968455)
I feel like you are using the word transend to suggest this very thing - that impirical data will reflect our political and cultural aspirations. We belive our children and our technology are both blank slates onto which we can pile our hopes for the future, but neither are. We are all children, and our technology is just a reflection of us.
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