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The Grid is the Mind: The Missing Foundation of the AGI Dream

You can't have AGI without a robust power grid

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Dave Friedman
Apr 13, 2025
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This post is an extension of, and complement to, my earlier post about adequate power being the principal bottleneck to AGI.

The human brain, in all its organic elegance, runs on twenty watts—less than a dim bedside lamp. It is silent, self-contained, and learns from scraps. It models the world in milliseconds without demanding a single kilowatt-hour mor…

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