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In the relatively short amount of time we've had with computers we've made pretty astounding progress though. If we had had a few million years to improve those silicon brains I think we'd give evolution a run for its money!

Antivirus protection could be better, though. Oh, and the built in self destruct is kind of a bummer, too.

I remember a quote from Civ along the lines of "if the brain was simple enough for us to understand, our minds would be to simple to understand it."

Natural selection is essentially just a massively parallel Monte Carlo optimization algorithm that's been running for billions of years. It's so simple yet produces such amazing complexity.

I think this might be a case of expecting a fish to climb a tree. Brains are terrible in fp32 performance, and computers are so far not great at reasoning. But that's mostly because they are made for different things. I'm not sure of this, but i would expect a single neuron firing costing a similar amount of energy as a single transistor firing. The difference is in part that they work differently, but I think the most important part is that they are put together differently. Computers were made for arithmetic while brains evolved for socialising and survival. For most other things you are 100% correct though, we could not recreate a bee or an ant even if we wanted to.

The fact that we only recently mapped out the brain really tells you a lot about its complexity.

Watch this whenever you think humans have rivalled nature in building stuff that works.

Nature's crafts in unrivaled

Hold my nanostructured beer.

It makes me wish I believed in God.

I think you underestimate how much time and energy it took to get us to this point. Like, billions of years of evolution to arrive at a brain as efficient as ours.

It's usually a lot faster in producing outputs though.

Human energy needs are incredibly variable so the estimates for normal consumption are wrong for most people, but when you get into essential systems (basically cardiovascular and nervous, not even including digestive or any muscle movement) you actually need even less - the average (by weight, height & age) man needs 1950kcal or so and the average woman (by height, weight & age) needs 1450kcal or so

When we replace AI with brains in jars I'm sure we can cut it down even more though

Capitalism has us by absolute fools.

Paying $69.99 for something someone else dreamed up.

We have a solution for this, its called going to sleep.

I remember listening to a podcast with indy devs and they agreed that engaging player's imagination is the best way to make sure your game succeeds. And most indy games don't have the budget for super good graphics.

Compared to what, >50% for a 4090 in a PC?

Visualise playing Doom in your head. It's free, and the cops can't stop you.

Nothing, cos energy is energy

Your GPU might tell you to glue cheese to your pizza, but at least it's fast!

I can generate an image in my head faster than your GPU