Humans Master a Topic on 200 kWh — Superintelligence Can Keep Its Trillion Watt-Hours
mayfer · x · 2026-09-16
mayfer notes that humans master a topic on roughly 200 kWh of energy, then adds: "superintelligence with its trillion watt hours can kiss my ass." A wry comparison of human energy efficiency versus AI compute scale.
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