alt Hacker News> Us running around in the jungle wasn't training our brain to write poetry or compose music.
This is a crux of your argument, you need to justify it. It sounds way off base to me. Kinda reads like an argument from incredulity.
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So you're arguing that "running around in the jungle" is equivalent to feeding the entirety of human knowledge in LLM training?
Are you suggesting that somehow there were books in the jungle, or perhaps boardgames? Perhaps there was a computer lab in the jungle?
Were apes learning to conjugate verbs while munching on bananas?
I don't think I'm suggesting anything crazy here... I think people who say LLM training is equivalent to "billions of years of evolution" need to justify that argument far more than I need to justify that running around in the jungle is equivalent to mass processing petabytes of highly rich and complex dense and VARIED information.
One year of running around in the same patch of jungle, eating the same fruit, killing the same insects, and having sex with the same old group of monkeys isn't going to be equal to training with the super varied, complete, entirety of human knowledge, is it?
If you somehow think it is though, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
No, I think what he said was true. Human brains have something about them that allow for the invention of poetry or music. It wasn't something learned through prior experience and observation because there aren't any poems in the wild. You might argue there's something akin to music, but human music goes far beyond anything in nature.