Selection for Selectability: Inductive Biases in Evolution and in Neural Networks

This post was written as part of MATS 9.1 under the mentorship of Richard Ngo, and was written during Iliad Fellowship, to all of whom my thanks. LLM Usage: prose drafted by Claude from my outline, talk materials, and notes. I edited thereafter. There is some residual Claude cringe in the more functional prose, but hopefully most of it is my own and the more entertaining for it. 0.A. Precis Evolution selects not only for having 'good genotype' but for having good genome architecture. Over long t...