From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Thu Oct 22 1998 - 14:28:41 MDT
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> From: Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>
> den Otter [neosapient@geocities.com] wrote:
> >Bigger is better. Tiny microbe-like posthumans don't stand a
> >chance against a
> >jupiter brain, neither physically nor intellectually.
>
> How fast can you think when light takes nearly a second to cross
> your brain? I don't believe that Jupiter-sized brains will ever
> be as useful as some people here imagine, except to the extent
> that they can run trillions of uploads in one shared reality.
Assuming that the speed of light will "forever" remain a limiting
factor, a possible solution for a JB could be to use only a
relatively small portion of its mass to run its "essential self"
on, while the rest serves as an (inactive) backup and/or as an
"unconscious" platform to run mostly "brute force" programs
on that focus on a particular low-priority issues. These
would likely work at (much) slower rates than the central
unit, so that if something goes wrong it has ample time to
react.
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