On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ...
>
> There's something I'm not getting. Why does the brain need 10^15
> synapses to store 10^9 bits? Maybe it's a speed optimization, like how
> a server farm has a million copies of Linux, or your body has 10^13
> copies of your DNA. Or is it something else? Is it the reason we
> didn't solve AI in 2000?
>

I suspect it has to do with Bekenstein bound placing data points in such a
high dimensional space that they are all on a surface where they can be
treated as orthogonal.

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