[mrkstu]

It’s interesting though that the hardware and software is all there, but something prevents accessing it- autistic savants ala ‘rainman’ can do instantaneous math at computer-like speed. There are humans who have near total recall. I think if we can understand why/how they can access this layer, so that it can become a generalized human attribute, without the autistic downsides, it’d be more revolutionary than LLMs.

[randomdata]

Are these autistics/savants actually accessing some kind of different layer, or is it, like the earlier comment suggests, that they've tuned/shaped/however to describe it their brain in a different way?

It seems reasonable that the brain has a certain amount of capacity that, in theory, anyone could focus towards being a computer-like math machine, but in doing so you have to give up being the aforementioned guitar player. Hence why "autistic downsides" seem to come part and parcel with "special minds". That is tradeoff made to allow the brain do something else.