Hi! Author here, thanks for sharing your thoughts! Counterarguments: 1. cost per FLOP (in both wattage and dollars) will be drastically lower in 20 years from

Hi! Author here, thanks for sharing your thoughts! Counterarguments: 1. cost per FLOP (in both wattage and dollars) will be drastically lower in 20 years from now. I personally like to think it may be as much as 100x lower, but that's just speculation. 2. the brain manages to be sentient on just 15-ish watts, so there's no fundamental reason that sentience has to suck up massive amounts of energy. 3. I think trying to measure the brain's computational ability in FLOPS is a somewhat apples-to-oranges comparison. The study you link to does it by trying to measure how much it would take to simulate all the neurons and synapses in a brain, but there's no fundamental reason that sentient AI needs to be structured anything like the brain anyways. Thoughts?