Ilya Sutskever

And it did it quickly too.

Because I think all these sophisticated social things that we care about, I think they evolved pretty recently.

So evolution had an easy time hard-coding this high-level desire.

And I maintain, or at least I'll say, I'm unaware of good hypotheses for how it's done.

I had some ideas I was kicking around, but none of them are satisfying.

Yeah, essentially.

Or maybe I'll put it differently.

If you think about the tools that are available to the genome,

It says, okay, here's a recipe for building a brain.

And you could say, here is a recipe for connecting the dopamine neurons to like the smell sensor.

And if the smell is a certain kind of, you know, good smell, you want to eat that.

I could imagine the genome doing that.

I'm claiming that it is harder to imagine.

It's harder to imagine the genome saying you should care about some complicated computation that your entire brain, that like a big chunk of your brain does.

That's all I'm claiming.

I can tell you like a speculation.

I was wondering how it could be done.

And let me offer a speculation and I'll explain why the speculation is probably false.

So the speculation is, okay, so the brain, it's like, the brain has those regions.

You know the brain regions.