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Think about what 130 billion tokens are. If it were a single human thinking as a full-time job, stretched back to back, 130 billion tokens would be a human thinking for 4,000 years. Eight hours a day, working a normal work week. Starting from ancient Sumeria up till today, a single sequential human thinking that long, concentrated in 88 hours.

— Dwarkesh Patel
1mo ago

For computers, actions are a cheat code around the costs of simulation. If human brains are much more efficient than best-in-class LLMs, then we can get all of that computation practically for free by observing how humans respond to the countless variables in their environments. This gives us a way to do non-deterministic computing efficiently and create simulations that shouldn't be possible under traditional compute constraints.

7mo ago

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