Intelligence Has Always Been Cheap

Biological neurons outnumber silicon “neurons” by roughly 12 orders of magnitude (10²⁵ vs 10¹³).

Currently, there is somewhere between 12-13 orders of magnitude MORE computing power in human brains than there is silicon compute in the world. It’s never been an advantage, but might someday to produce enough silicon brains that we could overpower the humans.

That’s never been the thing that’s mattered though. Context and by extension curiosity has. We’ve taught all of the core concepts in schools for centuries around economics, engineering, literacy etc. The thing that’s in demand is agency and the ability to be curious and learn about specific situations and then apply this knowledge.

An education in and of itself isn’t inherently valuable unless you apply it. In the same way our silicon intelligence isn’t valuable without the information necessary to run the algorithm over the tokens.

The real innovation in “AI“ is unit economics. The silicon models make certain previously expensive tasks (writing computer code) much cheaper. It’s not close to a complete takeover of human intelligence, but might be within our lifetime.

For all of the noise about the future of AI (which we should still build). You shouldn’t discount your own ability to gather context and reason - it’s likely much more valuable

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