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andsoitis 3 hours ago

> We didn't evolve our brains to do math, write code, write letters in the right registers to government institutions, or get an intuition on how to fold proteins. For us, these are hard tasks.

Humans discovered or invented all of those.

pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And it took a massively long time for that to happen after we gained that capability. Human ingenuity really only took off after we put a lot of the work on writing and tools. It wasn't so much that humans created many of these, but the super human organism that uses language and writing to express ideas.

Now think about what we just created.

alex43578 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Only in small ways and very recently, evolutionarily speaking, were those things rewarded by natural selection (and even that has stopped nowadays).

andsoitis an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure that's a good way to think about it.

Evolution transcends hard lines in the temporal sand that "separate species".

It also took billions of years of evolution to get to humans. so, humans, on the grander scale of life, is also just a very recent development.