Cognition & AI
Brains Improve by Deleting Stuff
Why pruning, compression, and developmental timing matter more than simply adding more — for kids' brains and smarter AI.
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Why pruning, compression, and developmental timing matter more than simply adding more — for kids' brains and smarter AI.
Around age two, you hit peak synaptic density. Then your brain spends the next two decades deleting connections on purpose. AI does the opposite — and that might be exactly the problem.
