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		yifanl on Feb 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial Gene... That seems... just deeply wrong? How much knowledge is gained from observation after birth as opposed to just being innate in your brain?

sn9 on Feb 3, 2023 [–]

He's talking about sentience.

He admits that the equivalent of years of "training" would still be needed to take an toddler-level consciousness to something approaching an adult human.

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