Comment by myrmidon

> Evolution selects for efficiency.

I think this is a poor argument here. From an evolutionary point of view, our brains are optimized to:

- Provide fine-motor control to craft weapons and tools (enhancing adaptibility and enabling us to hunt way outside our weight class)

- Communicate/coordinate effectively in small groups

- Do sensor processing and the above with a low energy budget

Our brains are *not* selected to be minimum-complexity intelligences, and a lot of what our brain does is completely useless for AGI building (motor control, sensor processing, ...).

Furthermore, the cost/complexity (from a evolutionary PoV) is a totally different beast from what complexity means to us.

Just consider flight as an example: A fruitfly is an insanely simple and straightforward beast, but to us, a biochemically fuelled, beating-wing design is still infeasibly complicated. If our approach to flight had been to ape after how nature does it in detail, we likely still would not have planes.

I do agree that todays LLMs still have clear architectural flaws that we need to overcome (online learning being a very glaring one), but, to pick up the flight analogy, we might well have the main wing structure already down, and we won't necessarily have to make those wings beat to get into the air...