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Human Accelerated Region 1
46 points by apollinaire 6 hours ago | 13 comments
red75prime 4 hours ago
Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.
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utopiah 3 hours ago
What was the alternative?
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red75prime 3 hours ago
Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.
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mapleoin 2 hours ago
Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.
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Nevermark 24 minutes ago
Or a single magic mutation.

And if we ran an experiment where we gave it to some apes…

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thesuperevil 4 hours ago
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samrus 3 hours ago
Implies intelligent design

I think its rather some mutations that produced more reelin and created the most successful animal in earth's history

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woadwarrior01 7 minutes ago
Merely implies a very good fitness function.
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Miraltar 3 hours ago
The most successful animal by what metric?
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menno-dot-ai 3 hours ago
Tetris high scores, obviously
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Nevermark 23 minutes ago
The most successful at communicating their view that they are the most successful. Whether they are or not. But that means they are. By that metric.

Has another animal proposed they are more successful by a different metric?

Crickets?

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robbomacrae 3 minutes ago
You sound like you’ve never been disdainfully stared at by a cat..

Really interesting article though. I’m very hopeful AI can help work out how all these things interact.

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totomz 50 minutes ago
Some of us don't spend days looking for food, don't die of cold, and survive the flu...

aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert

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borborigmus 3 hours ago
So Steely Dan documented this first?
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