Beff (e/acc)
@beffjezos · Oct 19, 2025
Intelligence is a byproduct of selective pressure on matter.
Selects for configurations that are good at persisting while coupled to an environment, ergo must good at predicting it.
Emmett Shear@eshear· Oct 19, 2025@parakeetnebula The free energy principle says that “I think, therefore I am” is exactly backwards and that the correct syllogism is “I am, therefore I think”. Where’s that in the stack?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
It’s taken 13.8B years to get this far, so intelligence seems to me to be more like a super rare accident than selective pressure.
Earth is ~4.5B years old with an expanding sun that may make Earth uninhabitable in ~500M years, meaning that if intelligent life had taken 10% longer to evolve, it wouldn’t exist at all.
10:08 AM · October 19, 2025 · 612.7K views
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