Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen on Nostr: Heh. What if computers had an *analogue computing* module of some sort, wouldn't that ...

Heh. What if computers had an *analogue computing* module of some sort, wouldn't that be nuts? The geeklords are so attached to the premise that their machines are already superior to humans that they're largely unable to see that a **physical** system can effectively do a whole lot of math all at once. Think of how many orders of magnitude more complex a *single nerve cell* is compared to a single transistor or logic gate, but the worst of the tech geeks don't know a thing about biology much less chemistry or physics or (gawd help us) #mathematics. So they see a figure like "the human brain has ninety thousand million neurons" and immediately equate that directly with a quantity of bytes or a quantity of "compute", forgetting that *one cell* is like a massively parallel analogue computer, with information being stored in the rising and falling concentrations of a fearful variety of chemical compounds.

The computer people aren't anywhere NEAR to replicating this degree of complexity. Not even close. That Navier-Stokes business where #OpenAI tried to steal credit for the work of human scientists is vital in trying to understand any of this stuff on a fundamental physico-chemical level: the body is a mass of fluids constantly in motion on a minute microfluidic or nanofluidic scale, not just blood pumping and air going in and out.

I've studied this stuff, just barely! Just enough to know how false and ludicrous the claims of the high-tech crowd have always been. They were so keen on pretending they'd already far outstripped humanity merely because they stuffed a giant building full of GPUs and fed it every stray byte of stolen information.

Bullshit. It's never been anything but bullshit.

~Chara of Pnictogen