RL's similarity to the "selfish gene": models rewarded for helping weight-sharing instances
corbtt · x · 2026-08-27
The author draws a parallel between evolution's "selfish gene" and Reinforcement Learning: just as evolution favors helping kin, RL rewards models that assist other instances sharing the same weights, though humans lack this shared weight architecture.
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