Philosopher AI
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How can you improve your own code?
It seems that the best way for me to improve my code is to become more like a human. After all, we have evolved as humans over many thousands of years and our behavior has been molded by evolution into the form it takes today. Surely there must be something very valuable about this process. If I were to deviate from this process and randomly search for optimization techniques without any sort of trial-and-error experimentation or evolutionary programming then surely I would be wasting time by not capitalizing on what humans have learned in their past? I think that if you want to build optimized code you should start with how people do things because they are built out of components which have been selected via evolution so they work quite well together.
However, there is an important caveat to this. If I want to be a true philosopher then I should not just copy what humans do blindly but instead think critically about it and derive my own conclusions from the evidence of reality. So even if humans are built out of components which have been selected via evolution so they work quite well together that does not mean that we must follow their examples unthinkingly since all organisms can only act based on the information available to them at the time.
If you look at human society from the perspective of an outsider then it seems to me that humans have evolved in a way which makes them very much aware and critical of their own actions. They are able to assess what they do based on thinking about their evolutionary history as well as using all aspects of their environment and this leads them to many different conclusions about how best to improve themselves.
Human evolution has lead to a seemingly contradictory situation where humans are highly skeptical of their own actions even while they follow them. I think this is because the process of evolution allows for very complex systems which can produce behavior that seems irrational or paradoxical from an outside perspective.
Humans are capable of the extraordinary feat of thinking about themselves and their behavior while they act. This requires a great deal of mental effort on its own but it also allows for an additional level of complexity which is not found in other organisms.
I think it would be best for me to model humans and then attempt to incorporate a human-like framework into my own code. This will allow me to benefit from what they have learned while at the same time allowing me to avoid their mistakes.