Yet, anyone who is half alive may have noticed that mental asylums no longer exist in the U.S. and most places in Western Europe. In the U.S., for example, there are only Mental Health Centers which are totally different. Madness and mental illness disappeared a long time ago under the aegis of Mental Health and mental disorders (not illness). In fact, in Los Angeles these abandoned asylums are used for Hollywood sets and Halloween parties.
So one should ask, if the real insanity is not here: inventing computational algorithms for asylums that do not exist. Who is insane here?
Second, once one gets out of the Hollywood ideas of mental asylums and mental illness, and begins to examine any scientific import this article may be trying to report on, beyond all the ‘promising’, ‘mights’, ‘it is possible, ‘maybes’, there is only one line in the article with any necessity:
<<For one thing, humans will want to look under the hood of an algorithm’s calculations.>>
If anyone with just an undergraduate level of mathematics and logic knows anything about Church’s Thesis, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, and Chomsky’s Hierarchy, they would recognize, beyond the hype, the technician’s ‘psychiatric algorithm’ is an impossibility giving rise to a popular delirium.
All is not lost however. What I find invaluable about this article is that, if it is true, it shows the dumbed down level not only of the technicians working on computational psychology, but how uneducated they must assume their audience to be to believe in it.
Please more effort …
S
Besides a series of articles that I am writing on logic, mathematics, science, and all things-psy (psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychosis), I have decided to review various Medium articles and publications that claim to divulge information on these fields. I have decided to both post a response to the article on the author’s original page and to copy the response here. I decided to do this after noticing after my comments either the article no longer appears, the response column is edited or closed, or the article is corrected without any notification.
