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> The mistaken usage of these terms by machine learning experts does not change their global definition.

Ah, I see you’re a linguistic prescriptivist.

I can’t see your definition in any dictionary, which spoils the effect, but it’s common enough to be one.

> The goal is pleasure.

Evolution is the form of intelligence that created biological neural networks, and simulated evolution is sometimes used to set weights on artificial neural nets.

From evolution’s perspective, if you can excuse the anthropomorphisation, reproduction is the goal. Evolution doesn’t care if we are having fun, and once animals (including humans) pass reproductive age, we go wrong in all kinds of different and unpleasant ways.



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