The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday

Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by dimitri-vs on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:14PM (#46969504)

On the other hand the average human has a context window of 2.5 petabytes that's streaming inference 24/7 while consuming the energy equivalent of a couple sandwiches per day. Oh and can actually remember things.

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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by handoflixue on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @03:23AM (#46972304)

Citation desperately needed? Last I checked, humans could not hold the entirety of Wikipedia in working memory, and that's a mere 24 GB. Our GPU might handle "2.5 petabytes" but we're not writing all that to disc - in fact, most people have terrible memory of basically everything they see and do. A one-trick visual-processing pony is hardly proof of intelligence.

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Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday by rune-dev on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:35AM (#46977121)

I think the idea is that we may not store 2.5 petabytes of facts like wikipedia. But we do store a ton of “data” in the form of innate knowledge, memories, etc.

I don’t think human memory/intelligence maps cleanly to computer terms though.

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