William Hahn
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Uh I think I mentioned last time the future's not what we think it is, because if we knew exactly which direction to go, we could just go in that direction.
And so there's
some kind of barrier.
And the question is, is this like a natural barrier?
You know, we just don't have a enough neurons, we don't have enough cor cortical layers to represent the representations and and so on.
And then there could just be another hierarchy.
Or something I've been thinking about more recently is that
There's a there's a more practical um
reason why we can't think these thoughts and it's kind of a an a sort of an immune system.
that we mentioned before, that there's that the mind it's our mind itself is trying to protect us from a variety of thought patterns that would essentially destabilize um both our mental patterns and then ultimately our our physical self if the thoughts go into a a terrible spiral.
So from an evolutionary point of view
There might be this kind of filter, this this barrier that evolution has instantiated to prevent us from going nutty.
essentially, and that if from a Darwinian evolution
perspective if we just want to kind of populate the planet the best we can.
You don't need this kind of intelligence, right?
Intelligence could be kind of a Fermi style filter.
That's actually preventing a lot of progress.
Um if we think about like you know the rain the dinosaurs had on the planet, it was 100 million years, 200 million years.
And humans haven't had that kind of longevity on the planet yet.
And
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