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DanielLC 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: DanielLC 17 April 2012 04:27:43PM 2 points [-]

Yet any computer can outperform me at simple calculations.

Humans aren't built to do math. This is true on both a lower level, in that an imperfectly designed neural network wouldn't be very efficient at precise calculations, and a higher level, in that humans do not have any sort of specialized part of their brain for math.