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Evolution did not strongly optimize humans for recently emerged abilities because they initially provided only small fitness advantages.
Tamay Besiroglu · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“in part because they're very new, but also in part because when they emerged,”
“there was a lot less pressure because it conferred kind of small fitness gains to humans. And so evolution didn't optimize for these things very strongly.”Play from 32:42Report a misattribution
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