Very cool. An evolutionary biologist would say: Welcome to the party!

Mutation rate modulation is the AI engineers’ heat. And selection does the trimming of the outliers.

Some more serious biomorphic thinking and we may get to the next big insight courtesy of 3+ billion years of evolution—- evolution that enabled a great ape species to write a paper like this and build LMM’s like Gemma4 that totally rock on a 3.5 pound MacBookPro M5 Max with 128 GB of RAM.