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... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2 Octopi are good evid (view hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2 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... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.1 4.1 Amazing. Zero neuron (view hidden) log in to judge received 4.1 4.1