From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 14:57:53 MDT
On 2002.10.13, spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Would it not be more entertaining to play supercomputer vs virtual
> metasupercomputer?
This would be /way/ cool. I'd love to see what the effects would
be.
I think the idea here is that emergent intelligent behavior will
come from a virtual supercomputer out of necessity because of having to
adapt to latency and propagation and other seemingly chaotic variables.
You don't get that "natural" behavior from a supercomputer.
When you're computationally bound problem solving, the supercomputer
ought to win. But, if you're looking for a more organic solution, I
think the virtual supercomputer will have surprising (and perhaps
unanticipatable) behaviors.
-- Dossy
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folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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