On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 01:45:41 PM EDT, John Clark
<johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
"It intuitively feels like lemurs, gibbons, chimps, and homo erectus
were all more or less just monkey-like things plus or minus the
ability to wave sharp sticks - and then came homo sapiens, with the
potential to build nukes and travel to the moon. In other words, there
wasn’t a smooth evolutionary landscape, there was a discontinuity
where a host of new capabilities became suddenly possible. Once AI
crosses that border, we should expect to be surprised by how much more
powerful it becomes."
An interesting comparison. But it avoids the obvious lesson. There
/was/ a smooth evolutionary landscape leading to homo sapiens. What
happened was that homo sapiens killed off all the near competitors,
either directly or by out competing them in their niche. That's why
there's a big gap down to monkeys.
Brent
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