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Clicked the article because of "flight simulator" even though I should have stopped reading HN -->

Realized that the article has nothing to do with planes -->

Closed the article


It's actually an interesting news article, at least if you're interested in neuroscience. I can confirm, though, that it's nothing whatsoever to do with flight simulators, and have no idea why the author chose that particular simile.


"algorithmic psychiatry" yea, hard pass, but thank you


Oh ffs, stop trying to make science "relevant" by these lame titles. Science is cool, just do that.


"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Woe betide those who try to communicate science to a wider audience


While I agree with you in general, in this particular case the title is really very loosely related to the actual contents of the article.


I am 200% for communicating science. But while this is titled to attract young minds it's just too old vibed.


from chatgpt for this article:

“Inside the Matrix: How the Brain Rewrites Reality When Learning Goes Wrong”

“Neural Jedi Training: How the Brain Masters Skills—and Sometimes Turns to the Dark Side”

“Glitch in the Mind: Why Our Brain’s Learning System Sometimes Crashes”

“Braincraft: How We Level Up Knowledge—and Why We Sometimes Rage Quit”

“Neural Flight School: Why the Brain Sometimes Loses Control of the Plane”

“Mind Avengers: When Brain Circuits Team Up—and When They Fight Back”

“Stranger Thoughts: What Brain Simulators Reveal About Learning Gone Weird”

“Control+Alt+Brain: Rebooting How We Learn and Unlearn”

“Mind Simulator 2.0: Debugging the Brain’s Learning Software”

“Fast & Curious: How the Brain Learns at High Speed—Until It Skids Out”


Those all impose extraneous ideas on the article as well. "Rewrites reality", indeed. Why does it need to be a metaphor at all? Or a pun, ugh.

"A Cut Above - How the Prefrontal Cortex Dominates the Striatum Like a High-End Hair Salon"


Sounds like the dude is tripping, though I will point out many profound ideas stumble out of the raw mind.

There is something about a hidden power in our minds to reinvent themselves into capable instruments of our own wills.

What these substance craving minds think of as reality is in actuality their thoughts feelings and beliefs.

Undeceiving the self rewrites reality with a sensibly competent version of one’s own self as an actor.


I don't believe you.

You prompted chatgpt to create movie based titles and then passed it off as regular output.

With the prompt "suggest 10 titles for this article" + the article text, I get the following _normal_ titles.

1. When the Brain Misreads the World: How Uncertainty Shapes Thought and Behavior

2. CogLinks: A Virtual Brain That Teaches Us How the Mind Adapts

3. The Neural Balancing Act: How the Brain Decides Under Uncertainty

4. Modeling Mental Flexibility: Simulating How the Brain Learns and Adapts

5. Inside the Decision Machine: How New Models Reveal the Brain’s Hidden Algorithms

6. Uncertainty, Meaning, and Misfires: Understanding the Neural Roots of Psychiatric Disorders

7. When Circuits Go Off Course: What a Virtual Brain Teaches Us About Mental Illness

8. The Thalamic Switchboard: Linking Flexibility and Habit in the Human Mind

9. From Neurons to Algorithms: Building a Bridge Between Brain Biology and Psychiatry

10. Toward Algorithmic Psychiatry: Simulating Brain Circuits to Decode Mental Disorders




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