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Is Aschenbrenner's 165 page paper on AI the naivety of a 25 year old?

As a nerdy teen I hated neural networks in data science because I couldn’t train one to multiply two-digit numbers and had a friend who wanted to build a movie scene detector like Shazam did with songs, which I couldn’t do no matter how I tried — perceptual hashing + NNs — it was too early. I believe(d) that the natural human brain is a complex thing that will never, ever get approximated by a computer due to its sheer complexity:

scanning the brain is hard and most of glucose and EEG techniques are like putting a voltmeter on your laptop’s charging port and expecting to ‘measure’ what’s the code of the app running. Worst-case scenario: I get embarrassed by this post and Leopold Aschenbrenner is a young 25-year-old naive guy who spent a lot time writing some ideas that don’t make sense or cause confusion and panic. I learned that a designer from my country of origin proposed a mail stamp celebrating the birth of Claude Shannon (one of the key people who founded the basics of artificial intelligence):

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