Did you end up getting a good answer to this question? I see no responses to you on the EA forum but you may have received a response through other channels, I suppose.
I got an okay answer in-person but I’m still not fully convinced. The argument was roughly that fairly high level of intelligence developed independently (octopodes, humans. birds, etc). So you might expect that getting to a neuron is hard but after you have neurons evolution “got lucky” multiple times.
That said this was only briefly discussed in person and I might be misunderstanding their position drastically.
I briefly discussed this here, thanks for having a better reference!
Did you end up getting a good answer to this question? I see no responses to you on the EA forum but you may have received a response through other channels, I suppose.
I got an okay answer in-person but I’m still not fully convinced. The argument was roughly that fairly high level of intelligence developed independently (octopodes, humans. birds, etc). So you might expect that getting to a neuron is hard but after you have neurons evolution “got lucky” multiple times.
That said this was only briefly discussed in person and I might be misunderstanding their position drastically.