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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

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@beniduboss do you know how ftx prediction market users will be compensated?

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@htltimor gm

[Coinfessions @coinfessions]

CT has never been more insufferable.

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@htltimor nice one, first time seeing a chart with correlated ETF data!

[Benoit Dubosson @beniduboss]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

TELEGRAM UPDATED ITS PRIVACY POLICY - THEY NOW SHARE USERS IP AND PHONE NUMBERS TO AUTHORITIES

DONT USE BIG VPNs EITHER, THEY’LL COLLABORATE TOO, USE MULLVAD IF YOU HAVE TO

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@blknoiz06 ha! you can make the money but not the time

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@crossw3rd @cited some of us see it the first time

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@gumsays how do they monetize it?

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@blockgraze admit it, you would live in CT without the money

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@blknoiz06 9

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@crypto_iso another prediction aged like fine wine 👌

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@htltimor i track from here https://t.co/AMkh5QEuPM

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@htltimor gn! thanks for all the read

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@htltimor @trader1sz blocks from certain ones are a badge of honor. i think you should wear this one with pride!

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@htltimor gm!

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@beniduboss i feel like i read this before on 4chan or elsewhere when i was in my phase of trying to find breadcrumbs of satoshi

nice writeup cheers!

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@htltimor gm! i think previous cyclers grasped that 99% of alts are meme coins with illusion of utility.

don’t think this is the end of it, maybe end of the beginning.

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@htltimor maybe unstructured but it is very helpful. you have years of experience successfuly trading and a method. thank you for sharing a glimpse of your thought pattern 🙏

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@htltimor haha you know your audience, smart thinking changing it into a vote. we are mostly lurkers and don’t write much and voting is much easier.