In ecological niches where the environment is static, where intelligence would be prohibitively expensive, or where organisms are short-lived, it is evolutionarily very difficult to evolve general-purpose learning mechanisms; specialized solutions tailored to specific problems are strongly favored instead.
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“in any kind of Niche where it's like static or where intelligence will be super expensive or where you don't have much time because you're a short-lived organism is going to be really hard to evolve a general purpose learning mechanism when you could instead evolve one that's just tailor made to the specific problem that you encounter”
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:44:56 AM
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