I don't think brains are that smart when considered in isolation; most of what makes us smart is externalized as what we call "civilization"
As such, our civilization defines a hard ceiling to how intelligent humans can get to be at this time - we're part of a big collective brain
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indeed! worth reading Lewis Thomas essay - http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2013/01/22/14361.html …
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In ML, difference between algorithmic optimizations vs amount of data seems similar, but that's log(N). Civilization seems to scale better?
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Not really, you don't interact with everyone. People form cliques and their experience is limited to that. Cliques usually much smaller
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Are we living in a simulation? What are your thoughts?
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Organizations can also reach levels of stupidity that individuals would struggle to match on their own.
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I like thinking that the Internet and especially medias like Twitter are synapses, where instead of a single neuron there is a brain.
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This is exactly why i say we already have superhuman intelligence; this argues against some irrational fears of AI.
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