Also, regarding the Landauer limit, human neurons propagate at approximately the speed of sound, not the speed of electricity. If you could hold everything else the same about the architecture of a human brain, but replace components in ways that increase the propagation speed to that of electricity, you could get much closer to the Landauer limit. To me, this indicates we’re many orders of magnitude off the Landauer limit. I think this awards the point to Eliezer.
Huh that is a pretty good point. Even a 1000x speedup in transmission speed in neurons, or neuron equivalents, in something as dense as the human brain would be very significant.
Huh that is a pretty good point. Even a 1000x speedup in transmission speed in neurons, or neuron equivalents, in something as dense as the human brain would be very significant.