in thread "Breeding octopuses": Octopi are good evidence of what I call "the worm mind hypothesis": full general intelligence emerges VERY early in evolutionary history, with worms or earlier. All later elaborations are just scale of different types of compute, and various instincts that... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 Octopi are good evid (view hidden) 66 Amazing. Zero neurons and still closer to AGI than OpenAI. It seems totally obvious to me that intelligence is about architecture and not about or scaling or data or FLOPS or any of that. Intelligence is the open-ended nonlinear cybernetic feedback loop of... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 55 Amazing. Zero neuron (view hidden) 55