Re: Seeking extropian opinion: GIMPS vs SETI?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat May 15 1999 - 07:49:43 MDT


Sasha Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com> writes:

> Anybody has suggestions for distributed computations that
> would actually be useful?

Distributed genetic algorithms to try to find good solutions to
problems? But the set of interesting problems with easily calculated
fitness functions may be small; most of the really interesting
problems (like AI or making good search agents) have rather diffuse
fitness.

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