I considered writing about the more distant future, such as molecular level computing, Dyson spheres, and the physical limits of computation. But any guesses about the far distant future will probably be wrong. We really have no idea what will happen after the end of humanity.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Russell Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The details, maybe. However, there's the idea of >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism >> ...which seems to explain an awful lot. So, it doesn't really seem >> to be correct to say that the future is "inherently unpredictable". >> > > Even if we believe in technological determinism, it only asserts that the > future is approximately _deterministic_; it does not in any way suggest > that it is _predictable_. Per Turing et al. we know that there is in the > general case no faster way to predict the outcome of even a deterministic > complex system than to run it and see what happens. > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
