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Animals such as eusocial insects can reach extreme cooperation quickly through genetic evolution without cultural evolution.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“In animals that don't have that, like eusocial insects,”
“then you just very quickly get just through genetic evolution without cultural evolution,”
“extreme cooperation.”Play from 43:42Report a misattribution
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