To caricature, you could say that the human brain is merely a short-lived mirror of what constitutes the main body of human cognition: the thought patterns, behaviors, and systems we've collectively evolved over thousands of years.
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Your mind reflects the civilization that shaped it -- it wouldn't amount to much without it.
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It's mostly the process of civilization, not you, that really thinks (in the sense of producing solutions to human problems). It then passes on the solutions to you. There is rather little that you could be said to have figured out on your own within your own lifetime.
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I really want to learn reinforcement learning and deep learning. But there are too many curriculum out there. How do I know which one is the one for me ?
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Get clarity on your goals. Why do you want to learn reinforcement learning and deep learning? Do you want to create products or publish papers on the subject?
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In that sense, gpt-3 is a bit like civilization
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Life and the planet will always find a way. A civilization may not.
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What do you see at the core dimensions of communication which could enable such (collective?) corruculum optimization?
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True. But how does one develop a sense of complex ideas? What is the right balance of learning, thinking on your own, and developing something based on existing knowledge?
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Indeed. That is why average human intelligence by any measure is improving at an incredible rate unexplainable by evolution.
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Even the way we teach children to read or add is a world apart from 100 years ago, and such gains compound over a whole lifetime.
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