A thought experiment: the cumulative computational effort of four billion years of evolution dwarfs our fastest supercomputers by twenty orders of magnitude. The lesson isn’t to out-compute evolution, but to learn the architecture it discovered, modularity, plasticity, causal grounding, and efficient attention, embodied in the human brain, which charts a more promising path to AGI than brute-force scaling.

This is the audio edition of Beyond FLOPS: The Evolutionary Processing Unit and the Roadmap to AGI, presented in a single part. The full written whitepaper, with references and intellectual foundations, is at jamesmaconochie.com.

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