If the neocortex is a general-purpose learning architecture as suggested by Numenta’s Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence, it becomes likely that cultural evolution has accumulated significant optimizations. My suspicion is that learning on cultural corpus progresses rapidly until somewhat above human level and then plateaus to some extent. Further progress may require compute and learning opportunities more comparable to humanity-as-a-whole than individuals.
If the neocortex is a general-purpose learning architecture as suggested by Numenta’s Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence, it becomes likely that cultural evolution has accumulated significant optimizations. My suspicion is that learning on cultural corpus progresses rapidly until somewhat above human level and then plateaus to some extent. Further progress may require compute and learning opportunities more comparable to humanity-as-a-whole than individuals.