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dborehamyesterday at 3:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's going to turn out that emergent states that are the same or similar in different learning systems fed roughly the same training data will be very common. Also predict it will explain much of what people today call "instinct" in animals (and the related behaviors in humans).


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ACCount37yesterday at 5:58 PM

Evolution is an optimization process. So if platonic representation hypothesis holds well enough, there might be some convergence between ML neural networks and evolved circuits and biases in biological neural networks.

I'm partial to the "evolved low k-complexity priors are nature's own pre-training" hypothesis of where the sample efficiency in biological brains comes from.

panagathonyesterday at 4:06 PM

Oh yeah, that's clever