I tend to agree but that’s closely related to my belief that human-level intelligence doesn’t require an insanely large amount of compute. Some people seem to believe that it will always take at least N × 10,000 high-quality GPUs to teleoperate N robots in real-time, or whatever, in which case the robot civilization-rebuilding project could potentially get stuck without enough scavengable chips to build up the capacity to make more (whether through recognizable-chip-fabs or weird-self-assembling-nanotech-that-can-do-chip-like-computations) . Again, I don’t actually think the robots would get stuck, but I think this is an assumption worth calling out explicitly. (More discussion here.)
I tend to agree but that’s closely related to my belief that human-level intelligence doesn’t require an insanely large amount of compute. Some people seem to believe that it will always take at least N × 10,000 high-quality GPUs to teleoperate N robots in real-time, or whatever, in which case the robot civilization-rebuilding project could potentially get stuck without enough scavengable chips to build up the capacity to make more (whether through recognizable-chip-fabs or weird-self-assembling-nanotech-that-can-do-chip-like-computations) . Again, I don’t actually think the robots would get stuck, but I think this is an assumption worth calling out explicitly. (More discussion here.)
I think that a self-riving car chipset is approximately enough to run a robot.