Debate: Does Biology Have a Pretraining/Post-training Divide

A viral post argued that AI's pretraining/post-training split has no biological counterpart and that AI mechanisms barely resemble biological intelligence. Commenters countered with examples like synaptic pruning and childhood amnesia as possible biological analogs of pretraining.

2026-09-26 ~ 2026-09-26 · 2 related posts

• The Pre-Training / Post-Training Divide Doesn't Exist in Biology — JosephJacks_ · 2026-09-26
• Synaptic pruning and infantile amnesia as biology's version of pre/post-training — sytelus · 2026-09-26