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Eusocial insects share the same genetic code and goals, and evolution binds them into powerful bureaucracies.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“And with eusocial insects,”
“what's going on is that they all have the same genetic code, they all have the same goals,”
“and so the training process of evolution kind of yokes them to each other in these extremely powerful bureaucrats.”
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