The ‘grand story’ Eliezer is referring to here isn’t anything like these, though. That story is more like “there is a gradual increase in capability in all species, on an slow timescale; eventually one of them crosses the threshold of being able to produce culture which evolves on a faster timescale”. Sort of the opposite of these species-parochialist tales.
The ‘grand story’ Eliezer is referring to here isn’t anything like these, though. That story is more like “there is a gradual increase in capability in all species, on an slow timescale; eventually one of them crosses the threshold of being able to produce culture which evolves on a faster timescale”. Sort of the opposite of these species-parochialist tales.