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You're leaving out the training requirements

That’s not entirely fair. That’s run time cost but not the same cost to information ratio and the cost of drawing from that pool.

Given a laptop is at 30W how much can a laptop do disconnected from the internet? Now how much can it do with the internet? Now how much information does the internet cost in terms of wattage? Now what’s the ratio?

What can a human do disconnected from society?

It is “the greatest” because we only appreciate intelligence that we ourselves understand. A 0.0001W calculator calculates arithmetic faster than any human brain.