> We can pick up a new skill or recognize a new pattern with a high degree of accuracy really effing fast compared to a computer. Evolution by natural selectio

> We can pick up a new skill or recognize a new pattern with a high degree of accuracy really effing fast compared to a computer. Evolution by natural selection is the OG genetic algorithm, and it's been "running" on billions of organisms in parallel for hundreds of millions of years. The intuition that we take for granted such as the abstract concept of a shape is all hard-coded in our brains from trial and error.