On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:46:39AM -0500, Brad Wyble wrote: > No never. Evolution in silico will never move faster than real matter > interacting.
Where are you taking this strong certainty? I can easily make a superrealtime Newtonian physics simulator by spatial tesselation over a large number of off-shelf components (DSPs would do). Biological chronon is some 10 Hz, that's not so fast. Depending on scenary complexity, a FPS is already faster than realtime. It's mostly faked physics, but then, it runs on a desktop machine. With dedicated circuitry a speedup of a million is quite achievable. Maybe even up to a billion. Oh, and I'd use "in machina". "In silico" will soon sound as quaint as "in relais" or "in vacuum tubus". > But yes it's true, there are stupidly insane emounts of CPU power that > would give us AI instantly (although it would be so alien to us that we'd It doesn't need to be alien to us, if the simworld is realistic. > have no idea how to communicate with it). However nothing that we'll get > in the next 100 century will be so vast. You'd need a computer many You will see individual installations with mole amount of switches within next 40-50 years. Maybe sooner. > times the size of the earth to generate AI through evolution in a > reasonable time frame. Show me the numbers behind this assumption. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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