Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:20:13PM -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: >>> I'm mostly interested in online harware which can be easily 0wn3d >>> for bootstrap purposes. >> d00d, if you (or I) knew how to program, your hardware needs would be >> embarasingly pathetic. =P
> My programming skills are a bit rusty, but I come by. But you should > go out more, and see which pathetic performance you get from a so-called > supercomputer if you want to crunch an MD trajectory of few 100 ns of a > few million atoms, and mostly water at that. Nevermind running a spiking > neuronal model of a few billion neurons, or so. Only someone smoking pattern identity theory would even consider contemplating that as a path towards singularity. The type of system you suggest would be so vastly outclassed by a direct implementation of intelligence that it would be considered absurdly impractical for anything other than computational neuroscience. What you suggest is like proposing to implement a computer with a capacity and architecture similar to today's comodity desktop with vacuum tubes. -- such a machine would be the size of a small city and consume ten times as much power. http://www.jj-electronic.sk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=10 or perhaps even: http://www.emissionlabs.com/datasheets/EML20B.htm ;) When I'm much less tired, I'll need to get around to explaining exactly why, if done at all, intelligence is a supremely tractable problem. =) -- Opera: Sing it loud! :o( )>-< ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
