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
@wow_tru@micsolana Filter feeding whales have been around for ~30M years, true chonking only arrived in the Plio-Pleistocene, ~3–4.5Mya with the onset of intense seasonal upwelling (high density krill patches)
So love of the filter-feeding game + oceanic productivity necessary for maximum chonk
@micsolana Needs to be marine. Q comes down to predation habits + how they scale with size
The largest marine reptiles (icthyosaurs) were macropredators, hunting for big fish. This gets less efficient with size
blue whales’ filter feeding is more efficient with size
qed blue whale = GOAT
@ModernAmbroseB@micsolana Completeness of the fossil record aside-
the positive scaling of the blue whale’s filter feeding strat vs the negative scaling of aquatic reptiles’ raptorial feeding is sufficient for the GOATing of the blue whale
@micsolana Needs to be marine. Q comes down to predation habits + how they scale with size
The largest marine reptiles (icthyosaurs) were macropredators, hunting for big fish. This gets less efficient with size
blue whales’ filter feeding is more efficient with size
qed blue whale = GOAT
@micsolana Oceanic productivity also factors in. the fact that no marine reptiles developed filter feeding is probably downstream of lower / less dense oceanic productivity in their time
So while they reached similar length (~90+ ft) they were unable to cultivate mass like the GOAT
@micsolana Needs to be marine. Q comes down to predation habits + how they scale with size
The largest marine reptiles (icthyosaurs) were macropredators, hunting for big fish. This gets less efficient with size
blue whales’ filter feeding is more efficient with size
qed blue whale = GOAT
@cwrichardson@robinhanson If cellular structure is emergent from these, you need to know the underlying attractors dynamics to recapitulate LTM -
which you cant get from a snapshot (or even continuous snapshots) of the structural state
@cwrichardson@robinhanson Comes down to what can persist long enough: Higher order cellular structures are more stable over time than the molecular features
but molecular features can form attractor states (feedback loops) that persist on longer timescales
Especially true for epigenetic mods
@almostlikethat@Sauers_ well I can tell you it will talk about brine shrimp as much as you’d like but as soon as you start bringing remotely anything mol bio adjacent along for with the brine shrimp subject matter you’re in danger. Even outside of methylation, which I thought was the tripwire, but - no
@remusrisnov@Plinz@EtiolatedLimb@QiaochuYuan With a few tricks you can even get them to reconstitute the entire organism from the initial embryo, rather than having to wait for the chimeric generation to use one of the iPSC-origin cells in a gamete
(This one is paywalled but here’s the first page)
@remusrisnov@Plinz@EtiolatedLimb@QiaochuYuan If the skin cell -turned-stem cell is injected into another embryo, these cells can go on to form all potential new cell types of the organism- skin, gut, muscle, even germline- and procreate at the organismal level indefinitely
@remusrisnov@Plinz@EtiolatedLimb@QiaochuYuan This Nobel winning work from Yamanaka showed a skin cell can be de-differentiated to an embryonic-like state and the re-differentiate into all germ layers
Not natural, but demonstrable
https://t.co/l8XamA6k3f
@Plinz@QiaochuYuan then milk is the only ethically permissible food under this framework, passing the ontological filter of non-cellularity
fruits are an edge case - ontologically cellular but teleologically destined for consumption
But consuming nuts violates their telos
~ eating children
@AskYatharth@deepfates@DanielleFong Interesting. Not just cast aside but cast to the substrate from which Adam was made?
Is that the implication here, how truth is meant to spring from the earth?
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.
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.