We don't even know how the brain implements its learning algorithm, researcher argues
stanislavfort · x · 2026-09-06
Joining the debate on whether our understanding of the brain is 'sufficient', stanislavfort pushes back: we don't even know how the brain implements the learning algorithm it runs, so our knowledge is extremely limited—undermining brain-emulation compute estimates used in AGI timeline arguments.
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