mimicry

Org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry Such a signal is vulnerable to knockoffs.

I really didn't want to come across as pedantic, which is why I tried to keep it light and say I thought his mimicry was cute. And I love stuff like this!

Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives\na mimicry, their passions a quotation.' ' Oscar Wilde

Code monkey mimicry. If thinking for yourself is "arrogance", then we need more "arrogant" people involved in web design.

Consider mimicry and the use of tools in social learning. That's animal cognition too.

Then I saw the "vogue cover" and realized how disconnected the whole list was - who values themselves based on the judgment/mimicry of mass media? Ego is the spirit killer.

As the OP correctly notes there is a very heavy reliance on mimicry for most learning. Visual cues are nice, and even desired, but gentle introductions outlining how to get started are as well.

Perhaps a logo that captures the "highlighter" idea, rather than physical mimicry. Excellent idea.

The first is skeumorphic design, and the other is a sort of mimicry of skeumorphic design by people who presumably did not realize the underlying point of skeumorphism. Cargo cult design, basically.

We promote scientists who are adept at Batesian mimicry of the scientific power structure, and not necessarily adept at science.

I'm not, because this is a natural product of mimicry: if you copy what others say, you usually use the words in the correct context. As with computer-generated text the exceptions are often hilarious.

Of course, there is general English idiom and mimicry in play here... I typed a few into google and looked at the number of results to get a very rough sense of how hn differs from the norm.

You say there's no way of knowing whether Excelsius' subjects groan, when beaten, purely because of the electrons hopping about inside -- like wheels grinding out the mimicry of a voice -- or whether they really groan, that is, because they honestly experience pain? A pretty distinction, this!

Cargo culting, since the very beginning, is the mimicry by a poseur of someone doing the mimicked action in order to produce similar results. There is no semantic or etymological difficulty.

> The first school of thought believes that AI can be achieved by mimicking real conscious beings It's important to note the true meaning behind this school of thought - that mimicry and "true" intelligence are actually equivalent. Behaviorists believe this, and the validity of the Turing Test along with it.

We should assume that phishing attempts will continue to improve in writing quality, use of plausible email addresses, and mimicry of email templates from legitimate sources. But some things will never change, because they are fundamental to the phishing playbook: seeking credentials, linking, etc.

Yes, forced installs allows mimicry of the all-digital experience and adds a certain amount of convenience, but doesn't allow any advantages beyond the all-digital experience. Certainly not enough to make up for the lack of choice in forcing consumers into a suboptimal construct.

They don't understand the core of what the movement is about, they don't take the time to understand the best way to accomplish positive outcomes, and they use an as-seen-on-tv / mimicry approach in their activism without the fundamentals to support it. It's like putting up a simple search engine page layout, copying Google, without the engine behind the scenes to power it.

I can think of no reasonable standard which would produce evidence for the theory that your own behavior is everything short of magical, but an animal's behavior is all mimicry, evolutionarily derived to be advantageous for survival, but not indicative of that magical personhood. What evidence should I take to be suffficient proof of the proposition that your emotions are real and the birds' aren't.

In the biomimicry department, I'd look to the birds. Imagine an ornithopter mimic that seeks out power lines, clamps onto them, and powers itself via inductive pickups in its feet. Its battery gives it a 10-minute flying range; this gets recharged first. Then it goes into broadcast mode. Sure, its signals could be triangulated, but if the mimicry is clever enough then it might be difficult to distinguish from a real bird.