RE: Science and technology micro-summaries for July 16, 2019
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I often find either reporters misunderstanding research, or researchers themselves.
"This form of attack, known as an adversarial attack, doesn't work on humans because humans are capable of higher order interpretation."
This is clearly not true. While some humans capable of some human trait sometimes express that trait, it is demonstrable that all of the people do not do so all the time. The statement should actually be '...sometimes doesn't work on humans because humans are capable...'.
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Good point. Thanks for the feedback! It's good to avoid overgeneralizing. Although, to be fair, I think it would be fairly unusual to find a human that can't tell (for example) that a stop sign with some stickers on it is still a stop sign. The main exception that comes to mind being very young children. That's the sort of alteration that the article is referring to.
Well, I was thinking more about misrepresentation of facts in propaganda articles. A lot of folks accept such reports without question, after long indoctrination, and little access to better information.