> There’s no evidence that today’s human is cognitively more capable than their human ancestors. It’s a conflation of technology and transference of knowledge with intelligence.
That was their point. See here:
> We are extremely similar genetically to our ancestors of 100k years ago. The big difference is cultural inheritance. We come up with ideas and objects and pass them down.
Yup, hence the “unfit” analogy. It doesn’t correspond well with LLMs getting more intelligent in the same way, which I believe, is intended by having a “self editing agent”.
In the linked project, the LLM edits its prompt. I think this is similar enough to humans improving our capabilities through ideas (such as language) that it counters the complete dismissal LLMs improving themselves as if it violated the laws of thermodynamics.
That was their point. See here:
> We are extremely similar genetically to our ancestors of 100k years ago. The big difference is cultural inheritance. We come up with ideas and objects and pass them down.