mrpimpunicorn t1_it67xpb wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:57 AM

Reply to comment by supernerd321 in If you believe you can think exponentially, you might be wrong. Transformative AI is here, and it is going to radically change the world before the Singularity, and before AGI. by AdditionalPizza

There's a hard physical limit to the amount of information processing that can happen in a given volume of space. I'm fairly certain the optimal arrangement of matter within that space will not be biological in nature (at least not eukaryotic)- so there is a hard limit to intelligence for humans that want to remain made out of meat.

AdditionalPizza OP t1_it6w0ya wrote on October 21, 2022 at 11:20 AM

I don't love talking about tech I have no idea about, but I'd argue in that case a sort of cloud computing could be possible. Expanding our brains with a "server" or something.

But that's way beyond anything I know about.

Plouw t1_it6x0y8 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 11:31 AM

>I'm fairly certain the optimal arrangement of matter within that space will not be biological in nature

I guess that's the real question though. We currently do not know the answer, whether or not brains are actually close to optimally using the space in a way classical bit computers cannot. We also do not know if quantum computers are physically capable of it either. At least for all possible operations the classic/quantum/biological computers are doing.

It might be so that a symbiotic relationship between all three is needed, for optimal operations in different sorts of areas where the different types might exceed. I am also aware that this might be me romanticizing/spiritualizing the brains capabilities, but at least it cannot be ruled out - as we do not know the answer.

supernerd321 t1_it7sajd wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:34 PM

Extremely cool

Any estimate for what the deviation IQ would be for such a limit

Given iq isn't linear scale my guess would be like 1000 which I can't comprehend