[snats]

I also did a couple of experiments with pruning LLMs[1] using genetic algorithms and you can just keep removing a surprising amount of layers in big models before they start to have a stroke.

[1]https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/pruningg.html

[kridsdale1]

I suspect this applies to human beings as well.

[TeMPOraL]

There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus# and there are cases of people living normal lives, not realizing they're missing most of their brains, until this gets discovered on some unrelated medical test. Or people who survived an unplanned brain surgery by rebar or bullet. Etc.

[littlestymaar]

Well, humans don't have “layers” in the first place…