Oh, ok they screen from some rather small number of embryos

And they provide this web tool to estimate bounds on the range of embryo traits — based on the number of embryos they can select from

BTW, 95% of the harder math in the new AI poster bot upgrade is in the optimal estimation bounds on the true quality of a feed, given an extremely small number of samples — because smaller the sample size, higher the chance that a high fraction of those could be far higher or lower quality than normal, due to pure chance… and surprisingly all of today’s AIs are horrible at even comprehending this proble… as are most people

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Biggest unstated question here IMO,

— Does non-interactively learning from books, where the communication is overwhelmingly only in one direction, count as “people”?

IMO clearly no, not at all — especially since ~100% of the “people” in abnormally smart people’s lives are often extremely AGAINST them seeking out those books, spending all so much time learning from those books, and also because the book writers could literally be dead since long ago

Learning from books = self-taught

IMO confusion here is probably that many MASSIVELY underestimate how much more the smartest people learn from mass-produced writings, written by someone else far away,

Whereas the dumber people rely MUCH MORE on interactive hand-holding instruction, where some teacher is interactively telling them exactly what they got wrong etc

Much like “a word to the wise is sufficient”

= The smartest much more often need ZERO individualized iteractive guidance

BTW, using “interactive” and “non-interactive” e.g. like in the sense of interactive proofs.

Making this more concrete —

DISTINCTION 1: INTERACTIVE TEACHING -VS- NON-INTERACTIVE NON-TEACHING:

(A) INTERACTIVE TEACHING = teacher individually tailors their teachings to what you’ve said so far = NON-SELF-TAUGHT, as e.g. the teacher could not even be alive anymore and this still works

(B) NON-INTERACTIVE NON-TEACHING = a “teacher” produces a mass message that they could send to billions of people, communication in the other direction from the students and subsequent tailored communication = SELF-TAUGHT, e.g. it requires the teacher to actually be alive

So by this simple definition….you’d see that the VAST majority of brilliant people were overwhelmingly self-taught, overwhelmingly seeking out mass-published materials

BUT, what about e.g. when colleagues interactively write back and forth, or chat with each other in the office?

I’d say there’s a distinction to be made there,

DISTINCTION 2: UNILATERAL NON-TRADE TEACHING -VS- BILATERAL TRADE NON-TEACHING:

(C) UNILATERAL NON-TRADE TEACHING: Learning of new things only going in one direction, from teacher to student, student teaching the teacher nothing for the topic at hand = teaching, education = NON-SELF-TAUGHT

(D) BILATERAL TRADE NON-TEACHING, which is often the real nature of such interactions between top-tier-peers, as they will often refuse to answer many more individualized questions, if they’re not learning something in return = STILL SELF-TAUGHT, because you basically have to end up figuring out something hard enough to impress some smart person with something they haven’t heard before, which virtually always involves self-teaching unless you’re some kind of spy = virtually always SELF-TAUGHT

Alright, so with those basic and kinda-obviously-right definitions out of the way,

+ SMARTEST PEOPLE overwhelmingly use: (B) NON-INTERACTIVE NON-TEACHING and (D) BILATERAL TRADE NON-TEACHING = SELF-TAUGHT

+ DUMBER PEOPLE overwhelmingly use (A) INTERACTIVE TEACHING and (C) UNILATERAL NON-TRADE TEACHING = NON-SELF-TAUGHT

=

YES, the smartest people truly are overwhelmingly SELF-TAUGHT, at least for anything you could learn via writing or video, by any reasonable definitions, while dumber people may not be

Saying the smartest people got there through education is practically commie cope excuses as for why they’re not as smart as the smartest people

Reality is innate extreme laziness, innate low NFC, innately worse learning ability.

Smartest truly are overhwelmingly truly self-taught

(BUT, upcoming modern AI runs into trouble with these definitions, because now it IS much more interactive… but it’s not a person — So just add that the teacher must be a human and not a tool, to still count as self-taught? Thinking about this.)

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