There are free-rider problems, size of the birth canal, tradeoffs with other organs and immune function, caloric limits, and many other things that constrain how smart it is locally optimal for a human to be. Most of these do not apply to AIs in the same way. I don’t think this analogy is fruitful. Also, its medium of computation is very different and superior in many strategically relevant ways.
Apriori, I’d expect that given how much human dominance is almost entirely dependent on our (collective) intelligence, our evolution would have selected strongly for intelligence until it met diminishing returns to higher intelligence.
This is a group selection argument. Though higher intelligence may be optimal for the group it might be more optimal for the individual to spare calories and free-ride on the group’s intelligence.
In general, I think these sorts of arguments should be suborned to empirical observations of what happens when a domain enters the sphere of competence of our AI systems, and reliably what happens is the AIs are way, way better. I just listened to Andrew Price’s podcast, who is an artist, and he was talking with a very gifted professional concept artist who spent 3 days creating an image for the same prompt he gave to the latest version of Midjourney. By the end, he concluded Midjourney’s was better. What took him dozens of hours took it less than a minute.
This is the usual pattern. I suspect once all human activity enters this sphere of competence, human civilization will be similarly humiliated.
There are free-rider problems, size of the birth canal, tradeoffs with other organs and immune function, caloric limits, and many other things that constrain how smart it is locally optimal for a human to be. Most of these do not apply to AIs in the same way. I don’t think this analogy is fruitful. Also, its medium of computation is very different and superior in many strategically relevant ways.
This is a group selection argument. Though higher intelligence may be optimal for the group it might be more optimal for the individual to spare calories and free-ride on the group’s intelligence.
In general, I think these sorts of arguments should be suborned to empirical observations of what happens when a domain enters the sphere of competence of our AI systems, and reliably what happens is the AIs are way, way better. I just listened to Andrew Price’s podcast, who is an artist, and he was talking with a very gifted professional concept artist who spent 3 days creating an image for the same prompt he gave to the latest version of Midjourney. By the end, he concluded Midjourney’s was better. What took him dozens of hours took it less than a minute.
This is the usual pattern. I suspect once all human activity enters this sphere of competence, human civilization will be similarly humiliated.