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Re:The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic ef... by MontyCarloHall on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:35PM (#35044221)
The author liberally alludes to “superposition collapse,” which implies that they’re referring to its quantum mechanical meaning.
Re:The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic ef... by mitthrowaway2 on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:44PM (#35044436)
It doesn't imply that. What term would you use to refer to the narrowing of a hypothesis space upon acquisition of new evidence?
Re:The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic ef... by MontyCarloHall on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:52PM (#35044630)
In a non-Bayesian context, I would call it “updating/retraining my model.”

In a formal Bayesian context, I’d call it “updating my posterior by adding data to the likelihood.”

Re:The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic ef... by mitthrowaway2 on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:00PM (#35044776)
That could describe both the narrowing or broadening of one's hypothesis space.
Re:The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic ef... by naasking on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:51PM (#35044611)
Bayesian inference?
Re:The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic ef... by GlickWick on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:21PM (#35045195)
Would you say the commonly-used random level generation algorithm in gamedev, Wave Function Collapse, implies it’s using quantum mechanics? Most people would disagree with you, I suspect.