I wonder to what degree the genome has “solved” intelligence. You could imagine perhaps that we are all sort of noisy instantiations of the ideal intelligence, and that reduction in noise (possibly mainly literal cortex-to-cortex SNR) is mostly what results in intelligence variations. Even considering this, the genome probably does not encode a truly complete solution in the sense that there are plenty of cases where there are mental skills that have the potential for positive feedback and a positive correlation, but basically don’t. The genome probably has no understanding of the geometric langlands conjecture. That is to say, there are deep and useful truths, especially ones that are pointing out symmetries between extremely deep natural categories, and we have not adapted to them at a deep level yet. Therefore the positive manifold of all mental skills is very much still under construction. One could then wonder to what degree variance comes from genetic denoising and what fraction comes from aligning to novel-to-genome deep truths. All that said, may be ill-posed, defining noise and novelty here seems like it could be hard.
I wonder to what degree the genome has “solved” intelligence. You could imagine perhaps that we are all sort of noisy instantiations of the ideal intelligence, and that reduction in noise (possibly mainly literal cortex-to-cortex SNR) is mostly what results in intelligence variations. Even considering this, the genome probably does not encode a truly complete solution in the sense that there are plenty of cases where there are mental skills that have the potential for positive feedback and a positive correlation, but basically don’t. The genome probably has no understanding of the geometric langlands conjecture. That is to say, there are deep and useful truths, especially ones that are pointing out symmetries between extremely deep natural categories, and we have not adapted to them at a deep level yet. Therefore the positive manifold of all mental skills is very much still under construction. One could then wonder to what degree variance comes from genetic denoising and what fraction comes from aligning to novel-to-genome deep truths. All that said, may be ill-posed, defining noise and novelty here seems like it could be hard.