You would be correct if these issues were fixed by structurally fixing the LLM. But instead it’s patched through RL/data set management. That’s a very different and more brittle process - the evolutionary approach fixes classes of issues while the RL approach fixes specific instances of issues.

Sure, and I'd be the first to admit I'm not aware of the intricate details wrt how LLMs are trained and refined, it's not my area. My original comment here was in disagreement of the relatively simple dismissal of the idea that the construction of humanity hasn't been an incremental zig-zag process and that I don't see any reason that a "real" intelligence couldn't follow the same path under our direction. I see a lot of philosophical conversation around this on HN disguised as endless deep discussions about the technicals, which amuses me because it feels like we're in the very early days there, and I think we can circle the drain defining intelligence until we all die.