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3 Oct 2025
this misses the most important part!
Inside of us is a process that bridges evolution and learning to create an architecture capable of recursive self-improvement. No life without it.
what is this metalearning process ?
it’s not the genome, or the brain…
people forget about the Baldwin effect when reasoning about the difference between evolution and learning
when you recapitulate learning that your ancestors did, when you learn to see, walk, and speak in an unbroken line for thousands of generations, it gets easier each time
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schizophrenia has never been diagnosed in a person who was born blind
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Something about the “mirage reasoning” mode seemed to put the model in a different epistemological framework; one in which it performs significantly better than guessing.
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when models hallucinate glioblastoma, melanoma, or STEMI where no images exist, are they doing something similar?
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curious how these mirage diagnoses rates compare to their prevalence in the training data
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11 Oct 2025
post-darwinian evolutionary theory will be indistinguishable from divine intervention
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3 Oct 2025
this misses the most important part!
Inside of us is a process that bridges evolution and learning to create an architecture capable of recursive self-improvement. No life without it.
what is this metalearning process ?
it’s not the genome, or the brain…
people forget about the Baldwin effect when reasoning about the difference between evolution and learning
when you recapitulate learning that your ancestors did, when you learn to see, walk, and speak in an unbroken line for thousands of generations, it gets easier each time
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3 Oct 2025
Two are uniquely dedicated to computation;
the nervous system and germline- also the two that dedicate the most resources to the metalearning process, with unparalleled epigenetic plasticity
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3 Oct 2025
Both optimize for survival and improvement, but on two different timescales:
the brain for the individual
the germline for the species
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people forget about the Baldwin effect when reasoning about the difference between evolution and learning
when you recapitulate learning that your ancestors did, when you learn to see, walk, and speak in an unbroken line for thousands of generations, it gets easier each time
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Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60% that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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What is life?
That which burns but is not consumed:
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15 Aug 2024
whales with menopause end up living much longer than similar whales without menopause (red dots in fig 1).
suggests menopause emerges from extended post-reproductive lifespan, rather than truncated reproductive lifespan
doi.org/10.1038/s41586…
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