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What Ilya Sutskever thinks about evolutionary biology

@ilya-sutskever · 28 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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  1. Our readingOur built-in emotions were tuned for a world that no longer exists, and hunger is one that now fails to guide us correctly.

    Their wordsI think for example our intuitive feeling of hunger is not succeeding in guiding us correctly in this world with an abundance of food.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 4th of 28 in this recording

  3. Our readingThat 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.

    Their wordsWhat 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.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 10th of 28 in this recording