Brute Force = Intelligence?
Today’s neural networks are morbidly obese, bloated, brute-force contraptions. Meanwhile, nature conjures far greater intelligence per unit from tiny assemblies of neurons, oscillators, and molecules—running on a shoestring energy budget with near-zero waste.
Advanced alien civilizations mastered computation by tapping into the nonlinear reservoirs of oceans, atmospheric vortices, ionized gas flows, tectonic tremors, fungal webs - whatever nature offered. When will we stop brute-forcing and start listening?