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Lapsed_Lurker comments on FAI FAQ draft: general intelligence and greater-than-human intelligence - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: lukeprog 23 November 2011 07:52PM

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Comment author: Lapsed_Lurker 24 November 2011 09:50:46PM *  1 point [-]

Couple of things in the quoted text chunks:

Compare these characteristics with those of a wire that carries signals on a microchip. Currently these are 45 nanometres wide, propagate signals at 300 million metres per second ...

Do signals on a microchip really travel at nearly the speed of light? I'd had the impression it was about half that, and some googling and looking at Wikipedia found that it varies a lot in big wires like network cable, but I didn't find anything definitive about signal speed on microchips.

...typical adult human brain weights about...

Should be 'weighs'