Judgment per Watt: Comparing 20W Brains to Power-Plant AI Clusters
demian_ai · x · 2026-08-22
The post proposes "useful judgment per watt" as a metric to compare the human brain (20W) with AI clusters (power-plant scale). While AI training and inference are energy-intensive, biological intelligence efficiently combines perception, memory, local context, and social knowledge. The author argues that during the transition of resource scarcity, the winning architecture will be "machines scale, humans decide," as biology has optimized energy budgets for eons.
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