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Re:A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function by arghwhat on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:36AM (#30577163)
The error is that stock price is not a function over time, but instantaneous demand which we record over time. That demand is a function over an undefined number of variables.
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Re:A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function by ddingus on Sunday March 06, 2022 @12:16PM (#30579067)
We can find a function to express past stock prices.

There isn't one for the future, unless said future is somehow predetermined?

Is it, given enough input data?

Does this discussion then distill down to philosophy?

Do living beings have agency, or are they simply very complex NNs?

How one answers that speaks to consciousness as much as it does the prospect of a predictive stock price model.

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