'We deserve this windfall': researcher muses human minds are just a technocapital bootloader
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-13
Researcher teortaxesTex reflects that there was surprisingly little 'special sauce' behind human tricks and talents — biological and cultural evolution paid a gargantuan price for our minds, only for us to become a 'mere technocapital bootloader.' Replying to a jab (implying Dario Amodei thinks coding has hit a wall and decompiling human data is the ceiling), he counters that 'the joys of ignorance… so many surprises left,' suggesting model capabilities are far from done.
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