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Comment by rspeer | Hacker News Reader

If you lived in the 1800's, would you have described yourself as an automaton made of gears?

Perhaps - it's not a bad analogy. But calling myself a neural network is not an analogy - it's literal.

I find it very interesting that I'm being downvoted based on the difference between my self-concept and whoever is doing the downvoting (they don't think they are a neural network). I'm pretty sure that's not what downvotes are supposed to be used for. Perhaps those who are doing the downvoting would be interested in reading the textbook dedicated to the notion that human beings are neural networks, called Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: https://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro

I think you might be getting downvotes because the neural networks discussed in the article have nothing to do with the neural structures in a human brain, and it appears that you're oblivious to this fact.

Stop talking about how downvotes should be used.

It's tedious, and wrong.

You aren't just getting downvotes from people who disagree with you (if that's why you're getting downvotes); you are failing to gain upvotes from anyone who either agrees with you or thinks your downvotes are unfair.

People downvote to disagree - and there's nothing in any site faqs or guidelines to say this is wrong - but those votes are balanced by people upvoting unfairly downvoted posts.

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