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RE: Tauchain through the Moravec Prism
The unique aspect of the human brain is the ridiculous efficiency. It's not raw computing power which makes the brain special but the ability to compute so efficient with so little heat, so little waste, compared to everything else. Sure if you have a computer the size of a large room or warehouse you'll easily surpass the brain in raw computing power but the computer is an order of magnitude larger to accomplish that.
It's because we simply cannot make chips small enough so we end up having to make lots and lots of chips to run in parallel which so far cannot be done efficiently.
Never underestimate the power of the massive parallelism. Moravec is right. ( Check him out - the links in the References. Rarely honest researcher - like Ohad) - human brain is condensate of billions of years of successful solutions discovered the 'bling watchmaker' way. It is very far from optimal, but it is here in a decade or so we'll have 10 billion such 100 TPIS 'chips' - amalgamated rough power equal to 10 BILLION TIMES the present day whole Internet ... AND not only 'numbers juggling' but also all the wisdom of these billions of years to know and survive in this universe. I.e. not only power but also zillion useful algos to reuse. Of course the non-human computation 'singularity' is imminent by 2030es-2040es so I envision the influx of smart machines into Tau, too. Inevitable. I'll post about this later.