Variation in human intelligence reflects differences in compute capacity; individuals with more intelligence have more compute in order to do search over more Turing machines for longer.

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when we talk about more or less intelligence it's just that they have more compute in order to do search over more Turing machines for longer

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The Grand Theory of Intelligence – GwernDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:44:56 AM

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