Photo, 2025-05-31

Per Axbom Bluesky

The paperclip-shaped Microsoft assistant known as Clippy, asking a question on a mock-up of a computer desktop interface. The speech bubble says: "It looks like you outsourced your thinking to probability distribution. Would you like some help with that?" The options to click are "Yes", "No" and "Roll dice”.

Regarding the idea that human brains are just probability distribution machines ("The Bayesian Brain"): rahnevlab.gatech.edu/documents/pa...

https://rahnevlab.gatech.edu/documents/papers/Rahnev(2019)BBS.pdf

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky