Joseph Henrich
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2 recordings
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
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So serendipitous meetings are important and improper copying.
So a huge number of innovations are mistakes where somebody copied incorrectly and then got something better.
Yeah, yeah.
So I think that's a very interesting area of research, and it makes good sense to me.
I'm not sure of the current state of the evidence, but different parts of the genome are more or less susceptible to mutation, which is kind of interesting.
Yeah, although I haven't totally seen.
I see there's various potentials, and I'm particularly interested in using AIs to augment problem-solving in human groups.
So you can imagine getting the humans together because the humans have the big advantage of having stuff they care about, right?
There's stuff they want to invent.
So, I mean, the AI is still a tool at some point.
So I'm interested in that, but I'm interested in how these things like running out of training data is going to be dealt with, the value of making mistakes and serendipity, if you get rid of all those things, or how you're going to reintroduce them, those kinds of things.
Maybe there's a way to harness that, right?
But maybe we just didn't know how to harness it.
That's right.
Yeah, I know I don't have strong opinions about any of this, but I do think that one thing that in order to make all that work is, you know, humans are constantly getting hit with shocks, right?
So there's economic shocks, there's weather shocks, there's...
conflict with other groups.
There's pandemics.
And the shocks have big effects on how things go.
They inject new information into the system.
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