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hotiwuer324234··on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
> "So maybe it’s actually got a much better learning algorithm than us.”

And yet somehow it's also infinitely less useful than a normal person is.

hotiwuer324234··on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
> but we aren’t going to understand intelligence this way

The same argument holds for "AI" too. We don't understand a damn thing about neural networks.

There's more - we don't care to understand them as long as it's irrelevant to exploiting them.

hotiwuer324234··on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
The reverse-engineering issue was popularized by this article, https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108%2802%29...

On the second point, the failure of Openworm to model the very well-mapped-out C. elegans (~0.3k neurons) says a lot.