Comment by hyperdrive on Environments as a bottleneck in AGI development · 2020-07-17T12:50:39.934Z · LW · GW

I think humans are good at leaving traces of previously explored paths in their environment through text, art and sound. If you are stuck in a local minima you will still get exposed by these influences when living a "human life" which might make you reconsider if you really reached your goal or not. Couldn't the general part of human intelligence be a product of the environment even more than the brain is?