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Evolution could encode the brain in DNA

Many people have observed that the human brain is extremely complex and that a complete description can't possibly fit inside the DNA. For example, from Dwarkesh Patel: > The difference is that evolution has to be titrated in the case of humans through three gigabytes of DNA. That’s very unlike...

LLMs are Adaptation-Executers, not Understanding-Maximizers

I believe LLMs are closer to biological life than to minds. My completely made-up crude model of a cell is a huge list of short programs (DNA) + the goo everything floats in. Whenever some molecule binds to a section of DNA the "program" is run (which might produce a...