All of the proposed explanations of the Flynn effect can be expressed in cultural evolution
Granted. I still don’t think you could cause the Flynn effect by inducing cultural evolution (whatever that means). The reactionaries would have a field day regaling you with tales of Ethiopia and decolonization.
Modern cultural evolution is, on average, progressive. Fundamentally, that’s because evolution is a giant optimization process operating in a relatively benign environment. The Flynn effect is one part of that.
It’d be the rent for believing cultural evolution is significantly relevant to the model.
Machine intelligence will be a product of human culture. The process of building machine intelligence is cultural evolution in action. In the future, we will make a society of machines that will share cultural information to recapitulate the evolution of human society. That’s what memetic algorithms are all about.
Modern cultural evolution is, on average, progressive. Fundamentally, that’s because evolution is a giant optimization process operating in a relatively benign environment. The Flynn effect is one part of that.
Machine intelligence will be a product of human culture. The process of building machine intelligence is cultural evolution in action. In the future, we will make a society of machines that will share cultural information to recapitulate the evolution of human society. That’s what memetic algorithms are all about.
There is an ocean between us. I keep asking for specifics, and you keep giving generalities.
I give up. There was an interesting idea somewhere in here, but it was lost in too many magical categories.
Hmm. Maybe you think I am not being specific—because you are not familiar with my material on this topic?
To recap, the basics of my preferred model of this process are here.