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To add more context, humans are 100W biological machines. Brain is ~20% of that power - 20W. The greatest form of general intelligence at 20W. A MacBook Air i
by nojvek 3y ago
To add more context, humans are 100W biological machines. Brain is ~20% of that power - 20W.
The greatest form of general intelligence at 20W.
A MacBook Air is ~30W.
https://www.jackery.com/blogs/knowledge/how-many-watts-a-laptop-uses https://www.jackery.com/blogs/knowledge/how-many-watts-a-lap...
- renonce 3y agoIt is “the greatest” because we only appreciate intelligence that we ourselves understand. A 0.0001W calculator calculates arithmetic faster than any human brain.
- beebmam 3y agoYou're leaving out the training requirements
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoThat’s not entirely fair. That’s run time cost but not the same cost to information ratio and the cost of drawing from that pool. Given a laptop is at 30W how much can a laptop do disconnected from the internet? Now how much can it do with the internet? Now how much information does the internet cost in terms of wattage? Now what’s the ratio?
- eru 3y agoWhat can a human do disconnected from society?