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Incorrect comments on Question about brains and big numbers - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: XiXiDu 17 April 2012 11:57AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 17 April 2012 02:30:10PM 7 points [-]

I don't think this is a valid comparison, you have no idea whether rendering avatar is similar to processing visual information.

Also, without mentioning the rate at which those processors rendered avatar, the number of processors has much less meaning. You could probably do it with one 35,000 times slower.