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This time around I stumbled across a proposed system to learn more about our own learning processes, aimed specifically at optimizing them.

I’ve been delving quite a bit into the area of Machine Learning lately and the idea described in this article struck me as something that is quite obvious in hindsight (but then what isn’t?)

I found it especially interesting that this is an idea for improving the human species’ capacity for learning which can trivially work today, without any fancy bio engineering or brain augmenting of any kind.

Now granted, this would not make us super-smart and able to deal with new problems all of a sudden, but I do wonder, if we rise the average knowledge of the population in a significant way, wouldn’t that, in itself, pave the way for faster evolution?

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