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We can stimulate a computer with the equivalent amount of information in much less time than years, though.


That's impossible I think. Do you get more out of TV by sitting in front of thirty of them?

You might say, we'll make the substrate faster. At best we'll shave of half of time every 18 months. At best.


We probably can't. Unless it's an extremely fast algorithm, we don't have the processing power to make it run faster than our brain.

We'll can in a couple of decades, probably. But not now.


Brain seems to be slow (I read it was measured to run at 200Hz tops), but it's extremely parallelized and caches the livjng shit out of everything.


It also appears to have quite a remarkable instruction set.




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