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Evolution functions as an outer optimizer that improves brain software efficiency in multiple ways.

Unresolved speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“efficient like what's actually happening is that you have this we got some other people that made this point as well is that evolution is sort of this outer optimizer that's”
“like improving the software efficiency the brain in a bunch of ways there's some genetic knowledge that you inherit not that much because there isn't that much space in the genome and then you have this lifetime learning which is you don't actually see that much data during lifetime learning a lot of this is redundant and so on so what changed seems to have changed with”
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