This is a typo; the source says “average firing rates of around 0.1Hz-2Hz”, not GHz. This seems too low as a “clock speed”, since obviously we can think way faster than 2 operations per second; my cached belief was ‘order of 100 Hz’.
The cached belief is something I’ve repeatedly heard from Yudkowsky and Bostrom (or maybe I just reread/relistened to the same pieces from them), but as far as I’m aware, it has not proper citations.
I recall some mild annoyance at it not being substantiated. And I trust AI impacts’ judgment here better than Yudkowsky/Bostrom.
This seems too low as a “clock speed”, since obviously we can think way faster than 2 operations per second; my cached belief was ‘order of 100 Hz’.
I think that’s average firing rates. An average rate of < 1 thought per second doesn’t actually seem implausible? Our burst cognitive efforts exceed that baseline (“overclocking”), but it tires us out pretty quickly.
This is a typo; the source says “average firing rates of around 0.1Hz-2Hz”, not GHz. This seems too low as a “clock speed”, since obviously we can think way faster than 2 operations per second; my cached belief was ‘order of 100 Hz’.
Thanks for pointing out the typo.
The cached belief is something I’ve repeatedly heard from Yudkowsky and Bostrom (or maybe I just reread/relistened to the same pieces from them), but as far as I’m aware, it has not proper citations.
I recall some mild annoyance at it not being substantiated. And I trust AI impacts’ judgment here better than Yudkowsky/Bostrom.
I think that’s average firing rates. An average rate of < 1 thought per second doesn’t actually seem implausible? Our burst cognitive efforts exceed that baseline (“overclocking”), but it tires us out pretty quickly.