Thanks for the links. Might go through when I find time.
Even if the papers prove that there’s similiarities, I don’t see how this proves anything about evolution versus within-lifetime learning.
But there’s decent evidence that there’s not much more initialization than that, and that that huge fraction of the brain has to slowly pick up knowledge within the human lifetime before it starts being useful, e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9957955/
This seems like your strongest argument. I will have to study more to understand this.
our DNA has on the order of a megabyte to spend on the brain
That’s it? Really? That is new information for me.
Tbh your argument might end up being persuasive to me. So thank you for writing them.
The problem is that me building a background in neuroscience to the point I’m confident I’m not being fooled, will take time. And I’m interested in neuroscience but not that interested in studying it just for AI safety reasons. If you have like a post that covers this argument well (around initialisation not storing a lot of information) it’ll be nice. (But not necessary ofcourse, that’s upto you)
Thanks for the links. Might go through when I find time.
Even if the papers prove that there’s similiarities, I don’t see how this proves anything about evolution versus within-lifetime learning.
This seems like your strongest argument. I will have to study more to understand this.
That’s it? Really? That is new information for me.
Tbh your argument might end up being persuasive to me. So thank you for writing them.
The problem is that me building a background in neuroscience to the point I’m confident I’m not being fooled, will take time. And I’m interested in neuroscience but not that interested in studying it just for AI safety reasons. If you have like a post that covers this argument well (around initialisation not storing a lot of information) it’ll be nice. (But not necessary ofcourse, that’s upto you)