Cultural evolution

Uh, uh, that, that was the, the first steps.

But, but the evolution of, now the cultural evolution of, of these LLMs, uh, reflects the biological evolution of the human brain.

And it's, it's similar that, that there's a surprising, uh, emergent, uh, uh, structure, uh, which seems to come from nowhere.

Once we build these complex systems based on statistical methods, using learning, using lots of data sources, we get in some kind of intelligent behavior.

Yeah, yeah

... just a comment about what you already just said.

Uh, this mismatch which you said, your Neanderthal brain and, and reality, I think has something to do with this mismatch, uh, between biological and cultural evolution, right? That cultural evolution goes much faster and changes.

So change, we, we are ourselves changing our environment so that we are, that we are creating an environment for which we are not biologically tuned, uh, or even our, the design of our brain is not tuned to, to, uh, react in it in an appropriate way.

We'll discover how our unique sweating ability changed everything.

And we'll explore the cultural evolution that made nakedness not just possible, but advantageous.

By the end, you'll never look at your own smooth skin the same way again.

Because this isn't just a story about hair.

This created a feedback loop.

Nakedness encouraged clothing innovation because hairless humans got cold and needed artificial insulation.

but clothing reduced the evolutionary advantage of body hair making populations even more hairless over time cultural evolution and biological evolution lock together in a spiral of mutual reinforcement The archaeological record shows this technological explosion happening in real time.

By 30,000 years ago, humans were creating sophisticated clothing with bone needles, carefully tailored to fit their bodies.

He says you are the author of your own mind.

But if cultural evolution is operating at lightning speed, quietly installing massive linguistic and ideological updates into your brain every single time you open an app or read a headline.

How much of your big self did you actually build?

That is the question.