I read any article long a go in The Business (a pink UK Sunday broadsheet) about an ice-free Polar Sea creating a huge sea trading zone and associated economic boom - like the Pacific rim (California, Seattle, Japan, China, etc.) or the Baltic Sea.
A deeper brute force simulation at the atomic level would be just a few more Tflops/years away. The problem of understanding at a "higher level" the thing that you are atomically scanning then modelling with basic physics is moot, especially if the full brain/body is simulated.
(That is, a good enough atomic-level brain/body simulation would still respond "don't remind me" when asked about it's last birthday, just like the human being being simulated.)
Whether anybody was home would be one for the philosophers, but such a simulation, of say a computer researcher, could work, and earn money just as well as it's original. So capitalism would pursue it. And it will rise in speed with hardware advances (which will increase correspondingly). So FOOM!
Sorry about that. You are absolutely right. I was typing fast and it was an easy metaphor that came to mind.
I meant that it is a software methodology we fully grasp (as compared to designing AI software ab initio.) Practically, as with weather simulation, scanning a brain and creating an accurate simulation would be an enormous practical accomplishment, and is bound take several years of worldwide research once the hardware is available. Not to mention the moral, political and legal issues and frameworks around artificial minds and their rights.
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I yield. Mod OP up.
I have to reply to myself on behalf of Freud.
If only I had a TARDIS I could grab the best one from the end of this thread and insert it her.
I imagine the effects on our descendants will be infinite...
Gillette is approaching a Singularity... http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006 /06/the_gillette_si.html
I read any article long a go in The Business (a pink UK Sunday broadsheet) about an ice-free Polar Sea creating a huge sea trading zone and associated economic boom - like the Pacific rim (California, Seattle, Japan, China, etc.) or the Baltic Sea.
You don't need to invade, all you'd need is one dam-busting bomb.
From the article "piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft!". Now that is interesting.
Use superstring theory. It's even weaker.
You have taken the first step on the path my son. Soon you will be ready to join us.
It would certainly seem that it is too late for the guy in the picture.
Especially the ISN video.
You haven't seen enough Japanese p0rn...
Just chew a scab from your knee and you're there.
granted
,,,grandparent is either the cause of moonsize or the fastest thinking ever fp or slashdot is predictably slow to report... ... YOU DECIDE!
Thanks. Interesting link.
I have no mod points, but if this is true, it is the most informative post here.
30kg of plutonium should be enough for anyone.
(That is, a good enough atomic-level brain/body simulation would still respond "don't remind me" when asked about it's last birthday, just like the human being being simulated.)
Whether anybody was home would be one for the philosophers, but such a simulation, of say a computer researcher, could work, and earn money just as well as it's original. So capitalism would pursue it. And it will rise in speed with hardware advances (which will increase correspondingly). So FOOM!
http://www.asimovlaws.com/
What is this 'speak' of which you type?
See the "Crackpot Index". Enjoy: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
I meant that it is a software methodology we fully grasp (as compared to designing AI software ab initio.) Practically, as with weather simulation, scanning a brain and creating an accurate simulation would be an enormous practical accomplishment, and is bound take several years of worldwide research once the hardware is available. Not to mention the moral, political and legal issues and frameworks around artificial minds and their rights.
Thanks for the reality check.
http://singinst.org/index.html