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epWRn TIL AI scientists put a 1 in 6 chance that AI advances will lead to human extinction or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment of the human species
Z86bD TIL The human brain's 86 billion neurons are connected by approximately 850,000 km (530,000 miles) of axons and dendrites. To put things into perspective, the distance between Earth and Moon is only 384,000 km (240,000 miles)
oBajE TIL that in 1961 the cost per GFLOPS for computer performance was US$145.5 billion dollars adjusted to US 2013 inflation. As of 2017, the cost per GLOPS was US$0.03 cents. This enormous difference in cost comes out to be a %99.999999999979 decrease in cost per GLOPS over 56 years.