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Non-simulated brains already have immediate access to all recorded knowledge and few are the smartest things on the planet.

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Those brains have to do a lot of other things and our input bandwidth is limited and overall our i/o isn’t particularly efficient.

We’ve already have had limited success in transferring memories - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0 and general purpose brain to machine interfaces are being actively worked on.

Humans already have trouble processing new stimuli well though; if we're simulating a human-level brain I don't necessarily think we can use any more bandwidth than we'd get from e.g. watching a video.

You assume the I/O would be the same… if you can transplant memories like they did with mice you bypass the relatively slow I/O of sensory data.

That's true I am, and I could be wrong.

True. Now imagine those brains are not attached to people but to high bandwidth io. Ie Futurama.

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