(ETA: this wasn’t actually in this log but in a future part of the discussion.)
I found the elephants part of this discussion surprising. It looks to me like human brains are better than elephant brains at most things, and it’s interesting to me that Eliezer thought otherwise. This is one of the main places where I couldn’t predict what he would say.
Oops, this was in reference to the later part of the discussion where you disagreed with “a human in a big animal body, with brain adapted to operate that body instead of our own, would beat a big animal [without using tools]”.
(ETA: this wasn’t actually in this log but in a future part of the discussion.)
I found the elephants part of this discussion surprising. It looks to me like human brains are better than elephant brains at most things, and it’s interesting to me that Eliezer thought otherwise. This is one of the main places where I couldn’t predict what he would say.
I also think human brains are better than elephant brains at most things—what did I say that sounded otherwise?
Oops, this was in reference to the later part of the discussion where you disagreed with “a human in a big animal body, with brain adapted to operate that body instead of our own, would beat a big animal [without using tools]”.