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It could one day be possible. There are savants that have the ability to work with complex working sets e.g. reciting Pi to a ridiculous precision, multiplying very large numbers or recalling images with photographic detail.

So perhaps the problem isn't our brain's hardware as such but the operating system that runs on top of it.



BRB, installing Linux...


Watch our for nvidia drivers :)


And be careful of systemd. Most days you'll wake up in 2 seconds but occasionally you'll be comatose for the whole day with no way to find out what's wrong.


That's alcohold that you're thinking of.


> There are savants that have the ability to work with complex working sets e.g. reciting Pi to a ridiculous precision, multiplying very large numbers or recalling images with photographic detail.

Yes, but all computers do those things millions of times faster than even savants. And the computers are getting faster at it every year, savants today aren't any more clever than savants 100 years ago.


But even in the savant's case, he/she can't simulate millions of games in parallel to improve strategy.




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