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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

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The Evolution of Rare Variants

The selection of rare variants is divine. How? How do we get the ones that we get? Is it just laden in that giant evolutionary baggage? So I'm going to talk about regression. Why do we call it regression? And the concept of regression to the mean, the fact that when fighter pilots in a dogfight did amazingly well, they would give them rewards. The probability that the next one will be just as good is almost nil.

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