Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: uncertainty
15 Aug 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
“At current hardware efficiencies. I don't know if it's worth spelling out. Basically, an H100 has the same amount of flops as a human brain, but also uses way more energy than a human brain.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- 15 Aug 2025
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…We kind of discussed this earlier. If you have 10 acres of land feeding one megawatt of H100s or something, let’s say a megawatt is 1,000 humans. So one acre is a thousand humans’ worth of cognition. The implicit land value there is a lot higher than it is as undeveloped desert. It's also a lot higher than it is as the most productive farmland that humanity has ever had. At current hardware efficiencies. I don't know if it's worth spelling out. Basically, an H100 has the same amount of flops as a human brain, but also uses way more energy than a human brain. It uses 50x more energy. Is that right?…
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