From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 23:30:50 MDT
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 11:48 pm, Brian Atkins wrote:
> There will always be a final, real-world test for any device that
> actually
> is needed for the SI to drive a fast Singularity. This does not change
> the idea that it can do 99.9% of the work in software.
Good, we are agreed. I thought you were saying that the emulation was
so good that we didn't need to do the final real-world test before
committing to it. That was my only objection.
> Who said anything about doing long term predictions of reality?
This point comes up if you don't want to do any real-world testing. The
emulation would have to be good enough to predict the real world exactly
so that long-term testing in cyberspace exactly predicted long-term
testing in real-space. If you do concede to perform the last
verification test in real-space, then the emulations don't have to be
100% predictive.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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