For many creatures, it does not pay to be intelligent because general-purpose intelligence is not actually adaptive; in static niches, in environments where intelligence is expensive, or for short-lived organisms, evolving a specialized tailor-made solution is superior to evolving a general-purpose learning mechanism.
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“it just doesn't pay to be intelligent because that's not actually adaptive...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”
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:23:04 AM
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