army1987 comments on Brain structure and the halo effect - Less Wrong

15 Post author: saph 18 February 2012 03:10PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 February 2012 09:07:06PM 2 points [-]

But in the human brain, input is noisy, so you don't want to exclusively match identical experiences -- also experiences that are close enough, whereas if you flip one bit in the input of a hash function you'll flip (in average) half the bits in the output.