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Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Intelligence

We choose models or inputs into the models that kind of confirm our own built identity up until that moment. So if it achieves, if the model damages lots of things but makes me win the war that model will probably win. And I would argue that humanity is in the process of pursuing evolutionary cul-de-sacs where the things that look like they are forward are forward in a way that does not get to keep forwarding. It becomes more of that thing through genetic selection which is super slow and it doesn't control. The mutation that makes the giraffe have the slightly longer neck or the cheetah a little faster or whatever it is is happening as the rest of the environment is going

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