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That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental.

Drawn from what Ilya Sutskever said

Subjectsmathematicsevolutionary biology
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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

evolutionary biology Natural selection as an explanation, including the problem of how cooperation survives it.

What Ilya Sutskever actually said

  1. Ilya Sutskever Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc.
    What I meant to say is that language math and coding and especially math and coding suggests that whatever it is that makes people good at learning is probably not so much a complicated prior but something more some fundamental thing.

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    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com

    25 Nov 2025 · video · 1h 36m · spoken · machine transcript

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