tinyfool on the energy debate: carbon evolved for eons, silicon has had barely a century
tinyfool · x · 2026-09-08
Quoting a claim that carbon-based brains are more energy-efficient than silicon (aside from low reproduction yield), Chinese tech figure tinyfool pushed back: evolution needed hundreds of millions of years to produce human intelligence while silicon has had less than a century — carbon merely served as an inefficient bootloader, and comparing energy consumption now is beside the point.
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