From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 11:20:15 MDT
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>
>>systems as far away as the other side of the world (or even more than
>>about a thousand miles) then you have problems due to speed of light
>>
>
> Your hidden assumption is that global communication is required, always.
> This is not true for the biological CNS. Your second hidden assumption is
> that the system is a singleton. Instead, it will be most likely a
> hierarchical architecture, a swarm intelligence, or a diverse population.
We are addressing different things. My line comes out of the SI
over the networked computers scenario rather than biological
CNS. On the latter I would agree.
>
>>don't see how you can make a mind a million times faster than human
>>minds distributed over that kind of area. But perhaps the flu bug
>>attempting to bite me tonight is addling my wits. What am I missing?
>>
>
> Hope you'll get better soon.
Thanks.
>
> As to 10^6 speedup, of course you wouldn't want a distributed system. But
> we're talking about bootstrap here. The 10^6 speedup is reserved for the
> time when the system designs and builds its own hardware, which is a
> distinctly superhuman stage of development.
>
Fair enough.
- samantha
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