Human-level intelligence is rare and took a long time to evolve because small Turing machines could always be encoded more directly and efficiently by genes with sufficient evolution, making specialized hardcoded solutions superior to the costly, slow, unreliable search process that intelligence requires.

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it helps explain why human level intelligence isn't such a great idea and so rare to evolve because any small turning machine could always be encoded more directly by your genes...that's way better than some sort of colossally expensive Ive unreliable glitchy search process like what humans Implement

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The Grand Theory of Intelligence – GwernDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:23:04 AM

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