I skimmed over the paper so sorry if I didn't see it, but isn't the most obvious answer that (at least conscious) human decision making happens at a high level of abstraction? Information output or processing in terms of bits, say the numbers of words in a sentence, isn't equivalent to the meaning or effect that has in the world, which is what matters.
If a general orders an army to go to war that's a few bits of text on a piece of paper, but obviously that bears no relation to the consequence of what that puts into motion in the real world. It's not like we spend most of our days speedcubing or writing and reading the dictionary. We aren't low level data processors even though that might happen unconsciously somewhere in the sensory system, but the conscious mind is a reasoning system.
"For each move, AlphaZero searches only a small fraction of the positions considered by traditional chess engines. In Chess, for example, it searches only 60 thousand positions per second in chess, compared to roughly 60 million for Stockfish."
Not too draw to many parallels between the human brain and these systems, but they do obviously share the similarity that higher order conceptual decision making compared to just data processing will result in lower rates of decision making at at least the top level. That's for me what you'd expect to happen, not a paradox.
If a general orders an army to go to war that's a few bits of text on a piece of paper, but obviously that bears no relation to the consequence of what that puts into motion in the real world. It's not like we spend most of our days speedcubing or writing and reading the dictionary. We aren't low level data processors even though that might happen unconsciously somewhere in the sensory system, but the conscious mind is a reasoning system.
Even in artificial systems is that visible, from Deepmind on Alpha Zero (https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphazero-shedding-new...)
"For each move, AlphaZero searches only a small fraction of the positions considered by traditional chess engines. In Chess, for example, it searches only 60 thousand positions per second in chess, compared to roughly 60 million for Stockfish."
Not too draw to many parallels between the human brain and these systems, but they do obviously share the similarity that higher order conceptual decision making compared to just data processing will result in lower rates of decision making at at least the top level. That's for me what you'd expect to happen, not a paradox.