Sorry i phrased this wrong. You are right. I meant roundtrip time which is twice the length but scales linearly not quadratically.
I actually ran the debate contest to get to the bottom of Jake Cannells arguments. Some of the argument, especially around the landauer argument dont hold up but i think it s important not to throw out the baby with bathwater. I think most of the analysis holds up.
Yeah I read that prize contest post, that was much of where I got my impression of the “consensus”. It didn’t really describe which parts you still considered valuable. I’d be curious to know which they are? My understanding was that most of the conclusions made in that post were downstream of the Landauer limit argument.
I highly recommend the following sources for a deep dive into these topics and more:
Jacob Cannells’ brain efficiency post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xwBuoE9p8GE7RAuhd/brain-efficiency-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know [thought take the Landauer story with a grain of salt]
and the extraordinary Principles of Neural Design by Sterling & Laughlin https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534680/principles-of-neural-design/
Could you explain or directly link to something about the 4x claim? Seems wrong. Communication speed scales with distance not area.
I thought the consensus on that post was that it was mostly bullshit?
Sorry i phrased this wrong. You are right. I meant roundtrip time which is twice the length but scales linearly not quadratically.
I actually ran the debate contest to get to the bottom of Jake Cannells arguments. Some of the argument, especially around the landauer argument dont hold up but i think it s important not to throw out the baby with bathwater. I think most of the analysis holds up.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fm88c8SvXvemk3BhW/brain-efficiency-cannell-prize-contest-award-ceremony
Yeah I read that prize contest post, that was much of where I got my impression of the “consensus”. It didn’t really describe which parts you still considered valuable. I’d be curious to know which they are? My understanding was that most of the conclusions made in that post were downstream of the Landauer limit argument.