The book “Sapiens” does a great job of exploring how culture enabled us to evolve apart from changes to our DNA. I couldn’t agree more. On instincts: the neoco

The book “Sapiens” does a great job of exploring how culture enabled us to evolve apart from changes to our DNA. I couldn’t agree more. On instincts: the neocortex is built on top of all the other more instinctual parts of the brain (vision, movement, etc). But this may just be an artifact of being embodied. Is there much difference between a RL agent that gets its data by processing pixels or directly from a simulator? I wouldn’t say there is, except that these non-pixel-parsing agents would have a hard time doing anything outside a simulator that was doing the processing for them.