From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 11:11:00 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
>>On the contrary, even with a good human model in hand, you
>>would be hard-pressed to find the hardware to run it.
>
> Not really. That was the precise point of my posts on Kazaa DC effort.
> You could buy access to sufficient processing capacity ~1 petaflop
> by buying a controlling share of the company (currently ~$3 million).
> It would most likely be a slower-than real time simulation due to
> the fact that many of those computers are probably on dial-ups.
> But as soon as the balance shifts in favor of DSL, cable, optic
> (company or university), or even 3-4G wireless (wouldn't it be
> ironic if the AI emerged from our handhelds and cellphones...)
> you are going to have the bandwidth to ratchet up the simulation
> clock rate.
At which point, with Kazaa taking excessive CPU power (unless the AI
part is rigged only to run in an @home style manner, which would make
parts of the AI run while others did not, basically at random - and
fixing it would slow it to the point of unusability), Kazaa users
simply switch to something that doesn't tie up their box. Potential
for hacking is one thing, which many people ignore; *actually doing it*
is something else entirely. (For instance: few people complained about
the possibility of spam in the pre-Cantor-&-Siegel days.)
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