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This argument mostly just hollows out the meaning of training: evolution gives you things like arms and ears, but if you say evolution is like training you impl
by SiempreViernes 2y ago
This argument mostly just hollows out the meaning of training: evolution gives you things like arms and ears, but if you say evolution is like training you imply that you could have grown a new kind of arm in school.
- horsawlarway 2y agoTraining an LLM feels almost exactly like evolution - the gradient is "ability to procreate" and we're selecting candidates from related, randomized genetic traits and iterating the process over and over and over. Schooling/education feels much more like supervised training and reinforcement (and possibly just context). I think it's dismissive to assume that evolution hasn't influenced how well you're able to pick up new behavior, because it's highly likely it's not entirely novel in the context of your ancestry, and the traits you have that have been selected for.