A Ga Illusion Game English
Amancio Mccrae
While the main vision of DeFi's proponents is intermediation without centralised entities, we argue that some form of centralisation is inevitable. As such, there is a "decentralisation illusion". First and foremost, centralised governance is needed to take strategic and operational decisions. In addition, some features in DeFi, notably the consensus mechanism, favour a concentration of power.
The rest of this special feature is organised as follows. The first section provides an overview, focusing on the building blocks of the DeFi ecosystem. The second outlines the decentralisation illusion. The third discusses key vulnerabilities from a financial stability perspective. The final section concludes with policy considerations.
The decentralised nature of DeFi raises the question of how to implement any policy provisions. We argue that full decentralisation in DeFi is an illusion. And indeed, platforms have groups of stakeholders that take and implement decisions, exercising managerial or ownership benefits. These groups, and the governance protocols on which their interactions are based, are the natural entry points for policymakers. These entry points should allow public authorities to contain DeFi-related issues before this ecosystem attains systemic importance. Regulatory safeguards would also help to ensure that the innovative potential of DeFi brings overall benefits to finance.
Arrows terminating a line can distort the perceived line length. This so-called Müller-Lyer illusion can be used in healthy human subjects to mimic the performance of neglect patients in visuospatial judgments (e.g., in the landmark task). In this study, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the Müller-Lyer illusion, the landmark task, and their interaction. This was achieved by parametrically manipulating the magnitude of the Müller-Lyer illusion both in a landmark and in a luminance (control) task. As expected, the landmark task activated right posterior parietal cortex and right temporo-occipital cortex. In contrast, the neural processes associated with the strength of the Müller-Lyer illusion were located bilaterally in the lateral occipital cortex as well as the right superior parietal cortex. The data not only converge with but also extend neuropsychological data that indicate maintained line-length illusion in neglect patients. In addition, our results support the size-constancy scaling hypothesis as a putative mechanism underlying line-length illusions. Furthermore, activation that was driven by both the task and the strength of the Müller-Lyer illusion was observed in right intraparietal sulcus, thus arguing in favor of an interaction of illusory information with the top-down processes underlying visuospatial judgments in right parietal cortex.
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A great many tools have been developed for supervised classification, ranging from early methods such as linear discriminant analysis through to modern developments such as neural networks and support vector machines. A large number of comparative studies have been conducted in attempts to establish the relative superiority of these methods. This paper argues that these comparisons often fail to take into account important aspects of real problems, so that the apparent superiority of more sophisticated methods may be something of an illusion. In particular, simple methods typically yield performance almost as good as more sophisticated methods, to the extent that the difference in performance may be swamped by other sources of uncertainty that generally are not considered in the classical supervised classification paradigm.
The illusion of validity is a cognitive bias that describes our tendency to be overconfident in the accuracy of our judgements, specifically in our interpretations and predictions regarding a given data set.
Different heuristics and cognitive biases are often intertwined. In this case, the representativeness heuristic, base rate fallacy, and confirmation bias have all been cited as possible causes of the illusion of validity.
The representativeness heuristic therefore underlies the illusion of validity. The more representative we feel a certain outcome is of the evidence we have been provided, the more confident we will be in our prediction that said outcome will occur. However, as Kahneman and Tversky point out, certain factors can affect the probability of that outcome occurring, without altering its representativeness.3 As such, we can end up confidently making predictions that turn out to be wildly incorrect.
The illusion of validity results from base rate fallacy because individuating information makes us confident in our predictions but, because we tend to ignore base rate information, these predictions are often inaccurate.
Another factor that gives rise to the illusion of validity is confirmation bias. This cognitive bias describes how we often selectively attend to evidence that supports our existing beliefs and to ignore evidence that contradicts them. We do this partially because it is a mental shortcut that allows us to allocate mental energy to other tasks and also because it boosts our self-esteem by confirming our stance on the topic at hand.
Confirmation bias can lead to the illusion of validity because cherry-picking specific information to support our prediction increases our confidence in it. When we are able to back up our beliefs with specific evidence, we feel more sure of them. In the case of confirmation bias, however, we ignore essential information that would otherwise demonstrate that we should not be so certain of our predictions.
Unfortunately, being aware of the illusion of validity is not sufficient in overcoming it. Even someone who knows that their source of information is unreliable may feel extremely confident in their prediction of a certain outcome.5 Avoiding the illusion of validity requires significant critical thinking. We must first evaluate the evidence we have been given and ask ourselves if there are any other factors that could influence the outcome that we might be unaware of. It is also necessary to analyze the data effortfully and not simply glean meaning from any patterns that might stick out to you upon first glance.
The illusion of validity illustrates how our confidence in our judgments is often overstated. The interpretations and predictions we make when analyzing a data set are often less accurate than we believe them to be.
It is less common that an entire website be laid out horizontally, requiring users to use a horizontal scroll bar to view all of the content. Occasionally designers and creative businesses take this direction on their sites to showcase their creative design abilities. For mainstream sites, relying on horizontal scrolling is discouraged. The horizontal scrollbar is cumbersome because it requires constant attention and physical effort to steer the cursor within a narrow tunnel. And sites that are based on horizontal scrolling can easily make the same visual-design mistakes that create illusion of completeness on the vertical dimension.
I have received a number of requests asking for permission to upload some of my illusion designs to webpages and I have granted such permission on an individual basis. Hereafter, I grant permission to upload to your webpage up to three (3) images if your webpage is to discuss the science of illusion or vision, is not a commercial site, and does not contain indecent, obscene, or illegal content. Religious or political sites would be declined. The sites that I cannot reach would be declined, either. My name and the address of my webpage (a link is OK) should be cited. Moreover, a cautionary message or warning like "These images might make observers feel sick" is necessary if they are anomalous motion illusions. Please withdraw my works from the sites if they do not satisfy the conditions shown above.
It is my pleasure to grant permission for the use of my illusion materialfor papers, articles, or books if they are for educational or researchpurposes. In this case, I would like the authors to request permission.Requests from publishers or other agencies are not welcome. Requests forwritten permission are not welcome either, because it takes time to check,sign, and send it back, though I will do so if it is absolutely necessary.Of course, I give written permission if it is a commercial gift.
Do not worry or become upset if you cannot see the illusions. I must confessthat even I do not see some illusions. For instance, the Ponzo illusion, if the image is the upper-converging version, is difficult to see.
Announcement: A website "Test online the level of stress a person can handle usingstress pictures: are they animated, moving?" abuses three of my illusionworks as well as claims an unscientific idea. To my knowledge, stress hasnothing to do with visual illusion.
Reclaiming your time to focus on what really matters can have a big impact on where you will be one year from now. All these moments we spend on irrelevant and meaningless tasks to avoid being alone with ourselves can be used for thinking, exciting work, or time spent with loved ones. It all adds up pretty quickly, so getting rid of the illusion of productivity is worth the initial discomfort of confronting our own thoughts.
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