Hallucinations, delusions, and superstitions can arise from perfectly rational processes. They're the inevitable byproducts of any system that demands an answer from partial information that may or may not contain it. Often, that's worth the risk.
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Delusional Pigeons, Bullshitting Dudebros, and Hallucinating Machines
Why pattern recognition goes wrong, and what we can do about it
