[pavel_lishin]

> To find out which sights specific neurons in monkeys "like" best, researchers designed an algorithm, called XDREAM, that generated images that made neurons fire more than any natural images the researchers tested.

I know they put "like" in quotes, but damn. Imagine this from a scifi angle:

> "The aliens from Tau Ceti found which stimuli specific humans "like" best by trying them out and seeing which ones made humans scream the most.

[mturmon]

The methods and results are scary/foreboding. It's like they are automating and extending the methods used by, say, horror movie creators. Consider the horror-movie hockey mask, which also has the deep, dark eye sockets seen on these images.

[ASalazarMX]

Fortunately the brain has astounding plasticity. It it's only images, we would get used to them.

[dwaltrip]

Try telling that to those who do content review for YouTube, Facebook, etc. People have suffered PTSD from jobs like that.

Saying it's just images isn't saying anything at all. Mental harm is just as real as bodily harm, even if it is harder to examine.

[pavel_lishin]

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can penetrate to the core of my soul, leaving wounds that never heal.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...