I don’t have a precise definition in mind since I was parrotting Yonadav. My point was that SpaceX is way better than a random similarly-sized group of high schoolers in many many important ways, even though SpaceX consumes just as many calories/energy as the high schoolers, such that it’s totally misleading to describe them as “roughly equivalent except that SpaceX has a massive coordination advantage.” The only thing roughly equivalent about them is their energy consumption, which just goes to show energy consumption is not a useful metric here.
I totally agree that fewer, larger brains with experience advantages seem likely to outcompete many merely human-sized brains. In fact I think I agree with everything you said in this comment.
I don’t have a precise definition in mind since I was parrotting Yonadav. My point was that SpaceX is way better than a random similarly-sized group of high schoolers in many many important ways, even though SpaceX consumes just as many calories/energy as the high schoolers, such that it’s totally misleading to describe them as “roughly equivalent except that SpaceX has a massive coordination advantage.” The only thing roughly equivalent about them is their energy consumption, which just goes to show energy consumption is not a useful metric here.
I totally agree that fewer, larger brains with experience advantages seem likely to outcompete many merely human-sized brains. In fact I think I agree with everything you said in this comment.