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Human learning does not involve a separate part of the brain that continually expands to store new information.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“And that's also not how humans do it.”
“There's no clean separation in our brain between parameters and activations. And it's not like some part of your skull keeps expanding as you learn more things through your lifetime.”Play from 8:51Report a misattribution
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