For a truly general audience, I suspect this may be too long, and too technical/jargon-y. Right from the opening, someone previously unfamiliar with these ideas might bounce straight off at the point of “What’s a transformer architecture?”
Also I am personally bugged by the distinction not really being observed, between “what evolution has optimised our genes for”, “the goal of evolution / of our genes” (although neither of those have any kind of mind or agency so saying they have goals is tricky), and “the terminal goal of a human” (adaptation executors not fitness maximisers—we don’t adopt the goals of evolution/genes as our own).
But making that point more carefully might well be contrary to the goal of being more accessible overall.
For a truly general audience, I suspect this may be too long, and too technical/jargon-y. Right from the opening, someone previously unfamiliar with these ideas might bounce straight off at the point of “What’s a transformer architecture?”
Also I am personally bugged by the distinction not really being observed, between “what evolution has optimised our genes for”, “the goal of evolution / of our genes” (although neither of those have any kind of mind or agency so saying they have goals is tricky), and “the terminal goal of a human” (adaptation executors not fitness maximisers—we don’t adopt the goals of evolution/genes as our own).
But making that point more carefully might well be contrary to the goal of being more accessible overall.