Initialising a starting state of 700 MB at 10^-21 J per bit operation costs about 6 picojoules.
Obtaining that starting state through evolution probably cost many exajoules, but that’s irrelevant to the central thesis of the post: fundamental physical limits based on the cost of energy required for the existence of various levels of intelligence.
If you really intended this post to hypothesize that the only way for AI to achieve high intelligence would be to emulate all of evolution in Earth’s history, then maybe you can put that in another post and invite discussion on it. My comment was in relation to what you actually wrote.
Initialising a starting state of 700 MB at 10^-21 J per bit operation costs about 6 picojoules.
Obtaining that starting state through evolution probably cost many exajoules, but that’s irrelevant to the central thesis of the post: fundamental physical limits based on the cost of energy required for the existence of various levels of intelligence.
If you really intended this post to hypothesize that the only way for AI to achieve high intelligence would be to emulate all of evolution in Earth’s history, then maybe you can put that in another post and invite discussion on it. My comment was in relation to what you actually wrote.