gwern comments on Questions and comments about Eliezer's Dec. 2 2013 Oxford speech - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 04 December 2013 11:00:39PM 2 points [-]

Might be a better idea to skim one of her papers: "The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost", Herculano-Houzel 2012

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 December 2013 02:42:56AM 0 points [-]

Thanks. I think my problem is that I'm not especially familiar with the point of view she's arguing against. However, I think it's interesting that the unsourced estimated of neurons (100 billion) came in so close to the right number (86 billion).