Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky · Jan 21, 2024
Your neurons fire at 100Hz, send signals at 100 m/s along myelinated fibers, dissipate 20W, and can't multiply 6-digit numbers unaided.
The ultimate thinking artifact permitted by the laws of physics is apparently FIVE TIMES more optimal than that, but has only 25% more benefit.
François Chollet@fchollet· Jan 20, 2024My intuition is that the human brain is likely far from the optimality bound (20% of the way there?), but because getting closer to it has decreasing benefits, humans already possess most of the benefits intelligence confers (80%?).
Hence modern technology and our collective
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Our meat computers are feeble (sigh).
We did get manage to get a few monkeys to the moon using rockets designed with slide rules, which is pretty impressive.
08:07 PM · January 21, 2024 · 101.6K views
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