AI Is a Compression of Millions of Years of Brain Evolution, Not an Industrial Revolution
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-09-23
A developer argues AI shouldn't be compared to the Industrial Revolution or the printing press — it's more fundamental: a massive compression of evolutionary timescale.
Key points
- The human prefrontal cortex evolved over 310 million years, from primitive limbic structures in early mammals to granular layers in primates, with a sixfold expansion in humans over the last 5–7 million years — and still takes 25 years to mature in individuals.
- AI scales exponentially instead: driven by hardware, model/harness architecture, massive data ingestion, and algorithmic updates — unconstrained by skull size or biological energy limits.
Conclusion: We're unprepared for this compression of evolution's timeline, which the author links to von Neumann's notion of an upcoming singularity.
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