From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 11:36:49 MDT
All of this seems to assume that we're talking about today's landline
internet--which could indeed be faster. And also today's computers--
which could indeed be better.
But what of tomorrow--when it is, and they are? And who says you
can't like a bunch of basement clusters together, even today?
jm
On 28 May 2001, at 0:07, James Rogers wrote:
.... The inefficiency of using the Internet as a
> distributed system could very well mean that a seed AI never reaches
> critical mass intelligence-wise. This represents a real hard limit, for now
> at least. Basically, you have to look at the problem as determining the
> maximum throughput of a given algorithm (AI in this case) on a given piece
> of hardware (A large, loosely distributed system in this case). You can
> treat a distributed system exactly like a single piece of hardware because
> mathematically there is no difference. Plug in the numbers and turn the
> crank. Everything I've seen appears to suggest that, even if you did send
> an AI out over the Internet, you could figuratively kick its ass with a
> well-designed basement cluster by any useful metric.
>
> This is a useful discussion in any case. I don't recall ever seeing it come
> up on the extropians list since I've been on it.
>
>
> -James Rogers
> jamesr@best.com
>
John Marlow
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