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by slowmovintarget 642 days ago
What's interesting is how difficult somes things are to reason about. This goes to complexity and time, not necessarily straight computation. We don't have good categorizations of complexity and emergence, let alone cognition, to be able to quantify it.

All we have are proxies, like energy use. The kicker is, that as the systems grow more efficient from advances in the algorithm, even that won't be a good proxy for measuring units of "thought."