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> total number of humans who ever lived 110B But why do you think that all 110B individuals have made significant contribution to overall intelligence? I thin
by simne 2y ago
> total number of humans who ever lived 110B
But why do you think that all 110B individuals have made significant contribution to overall intelligence?
I think, at best case, in every generation exists few significant contributors, but all others are just carriers of genome diversity and nothing more, and all they have done, just disappear as a breath of wind.
So, for 200k years, if one generation 40 years, will be just 5000 generations, ok, lets consider significant 1000 persons from each generation, will be just 5millions, 5 magnitudes less than your estimation, and BTW much closer to known estimations of humanity knowledge and size of datasets used to train largest existing models.