AI as Accelerated Cultural Progress

We’re running through generations of cultural learning within each cycle. Like selective breeding of the mind We, as intentional creators, can force AIs to learn our 50k years of intellectual development in a fraction of the time.

Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session which finally stumbles into the right answer can be refined to drop the dead ends and produce a clean transcript to train a more refined intuition).
— Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/gwern/