However, the process responsible for human breadth of generality was not some small architectural modification evolution made to the human brain. It was humanity’s cross-generational process of expanding and improving our available “training data” to cover a broader and broader range of capabilities across many domains (a process we sometimes call “science”). The evolutionary analogy thus offers no reason to expect sudden jumps in generality without corresponding extensions of the training data.
I think this is true but wish it were hedged as “I think it was not”, since we have not in fact observed that the small architectural modification didn’t cause it, nor do I think we have a huge pile of evidence towards that. I think we have a reasonably strong amount of evidence to that conclusion.
I think this is true but wish it were hedged as “I think it was not”, since we have not in fact observed that the small architectural modification didn’t cause it, nor do I think we have a huge pile of evidence towards that. I think we have a reasonably strong amount of evidence to that conclusion.