The relevant literature here is Jacob Cannell’s analysis.
If he’s right about the math than indeed human brains are already within one OOM of pareto-optimality.
Of course this doesn’t mean that Superintelligence is impossible or that AGI won’t be completely wild (and Cannell certainly doesn’t say so!). Just that the argument ‘human brains are already optimal’ is actually technically true.
The relevant literature here is Jacob Cannell’s analysis. If he’s right about the math than indeed human brains are already within one OOM of pareto-optimality. Of course this doesn’t mean that Superintelligence is impossible or that AGI won’t be completely wild (and Cannell certainly doesn’t say so!). Just that the argument ‘human brains are already optimal’ is actually technically true.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xwBuoE9p8GE7RAuhd/brain-efficiency-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know