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Reasoning from social information enables efficient human intelligence

2026-03-25

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<p>Humans have a remarkable capacity for efficient reasoning. We achieve a level of general intelligence far beyond that of any other species, and although artificial agents now exhibit many impressive, human-like abilities, they still require orders of magnitude more data than a human encounters in a lifetime. What, then, underlies our extraordinarily powerful yet efficient cognitive abilities? We examine one pos...

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Literature Corpus work: d986b9eb-a439-5708-92ac-0393d3633abb
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/49pzr_v1

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