alt Hacker NewsBut there is no evolutionary pressure for the Poincaré conjecture, we were never optimized for that in particular, unlike these kinds of LLMs.
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munksbeer • last Tuesday at 4:03 PM
Of course it is evolution. What else could it be?
But there is no evolutionary pressure for the Poincaré conjecture, we were never optimized for that in particular, unlike these kinds of LLMs.
Of course it is evolution. What else could it be?
We were optimized to rapidly adapt to changing environments by solving the problems that arise through tool-making and cooperation in complex multi-stage tasks (like say hunting that mammoth to make clothing out of it). It turns out that the cheapest evolutionary pathway to get there has some interesting emergent phenomena.