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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Dwarkesh Podcast

CHAPTER

Will the Door Open?

Animal knowledge is designed to make animals easily capable of thriving in environments that they have never seen before. It's an instruction that takes imput from the outside and then generates behaviour relevant to that e. Telling a story is is a sort of typical creative activity as forming an explanation. So i don't think it's at all surprising that cats can er jump on on handles, because it's the same i can easily imagine that the same amazingly sophisticated programme that lets it jump on a branch will also function in this new environment that it's never seen before'

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