My alternate perspective here is that while IQ/intelligence actually matters, I don’t think that the difference is so large as to explain why chimp society was completely outclassed, and I usually model mammals as having 2 OOMs worse to a few times better intelligence than us, though usually towards the worse end of that range, so other factors matter.
So the difference is I’m less extreme than this:
none of which I would put on approximate par with humans intelligence-wise.
On the overhang from evolution spending it’s compute shockingly inefficiently, I was referring to this post, where evolution was way weaker than in-lifetime updating, for the purposes of optimization:
My alternate perspective here is that while IQ/intelligence actually matters, I don’t think that the difference is so large as to explain why chimp society was completely outclassed, and I usually model mammals as having 2 OOMs worse to a few times better intelligence than us, though usually towards the worse end of that range, so other factors matter.
So the difference is I’m less extreme than this:
On the overhang from evolution spending it’s compute shockingly inefficiently, I was referring to this post, where evolution was way weaker than in-lifetime updating, for the purposes of optimization:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hvz9qjWyv8cLX9JJR/evolution-provides-no-evidence-for-the-sharp-left-turn#Evolution_s_sharp_left_turn_happened_for_evolution_specific_reasons
Thanks for clarifying your thoughts!