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I was going into the OR for a hemispherectomy, a surgery to separate the brain hemisphere causing my epilepsy from the rest of the nervous system.

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Okay, you can hold a funeral..

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After I couldn't raise enough for my sister's cancer treatment, I tried to kill myself and leave all I had to her in the will.

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[WP] You are an agent working on existential threat control, the person you're talking to has read way too many SCP stories and you're trying to explain to them how things really work.

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What is more likely, that all of the super-successful hominid branch of intelligent tool-using persistence predators died except one?

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[WP] Two inventors claim to have discovered their idea first, a physicist is called into court as an expert witness and says "in this case, which event happened first depends on your frame of reference"

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I always believed that it was reality and physics that were basic, and my perceptions and beliefs happened because of them.

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Good intentions

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As part of the consent clause you signed, we are contractually required to inform you via an in-universe medium at the end of the tutorial.

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Have we found any ways to make a neural network or other ML algorithm tell us "why" it came up with its decision?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
I was going into the OR for a hemispherectomy, a surgery to separate the brain hemisphere causing my epilepsy from the rest of the nervous system.	15	TwoSentenceHorror
Okay, you can hold a funeral..	15	TwoSentenceHorror
After I couldn't raise enough for my sister's cancer treatment, I tried to kill myself and leave all I had to her in the will.	13	TwoSentenceHorror
[WP] You are an agent working on existential threat control, the person you're talking to has read way too many SCP stories and you're trying to explain to them how things really work.	13	WritingPrompts
What is more likely, that all of the super-successful hominid branch of intelligent tool-using persistence predators died except one?	12	TwoSentenceHorror
[WP] Two inventors claim to have discovered their idea first, a physicist is called into court as an expert witness and says "in this case, which event happened first depends on your frame of reference"	12	WritingPrompts
I always believed that it was reality and physics that were basic, and my perceptions and beliefs happened because of them.	11	TwoSentenceHorror
Good intentions	11	shortscarystories
As part of the consent clause you signed, we are contractually required to inform you via an in-universe medium at the end of the tutorial.	11	TwoSentenceHorror
Have we found any ways to make a neural network or other ML algorithm tell us "why" it came up with its decision?	10	askscience