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		ACCount37 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comebac... Any sufficiently advanced statistical model is a world model. If you think that what your own brain doing isn't fancy statistics plugged into a prediction engine, I have some news for you.

staticman2 3 months ago [–]

By defining the word "statistics" not as a field of mathematics but as "what brains do" you have you have proven the brain is statistical.

Very deep.

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