Von Neumann was taught advanced math and was trained to do complex math problems in his head as a child — part of Neumann’s unique brilliance was a trick — a skill the rest of us don’t have but to some degree most of us could acquire. Like any trained skill.
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Neumann’s brilliance was obsession with math — this is a characteristic that is also rare. But we see it expressed in all sorts of directions. Why the genetics of obsessive people is the thing we need to understand.
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I can see how this natural selection model can be applied to training deep neural networks, by creating a system which iterates over time to select for the best traits to negotiate a changing environment.
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Your hypothesis is that natural selection is the main driver of evolution. There are many many many widely available arguments against this idea. One might intelligently argue that natural selection may have never even been a driver in humans.
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Natural selection isn't a mechanism.
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How can a mental ability be genetic?
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