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Pseudoscience in Informatics

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-12 3:27

I often see individuals bashing mathematics as being nonscientific on /prog/.

How do you respond to the fact that branches which suffer from even worse practices exist within the field?

Like Bioinformatics ( heuristics and data mining data mining applied to something which is supposed to be an 4^3 wide instruction set )

or A.I. ( attempting of a invalid cybernetic transformation, hence the definition of a machine )

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-12 6:10

>>7
As a fellow physicalist, I know that the brain is just a complex analogic machine.
What I meant in >>5 is, if there were concrete physics in our universe, we could use them just fine to do hypercomputation and make AIs with them. So that would not make AI impossible, as you(?) say in >>4. Even thinking that hypercomputation (if it exists) is magically constrained to our brains only is silly, unscientific and ultimately destructive.

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