Re: sigmoidia

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 1997 - 21:06:43 MDT

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Anton Sherwood wrote:
>
> Well we can't do it forever, because there are inherent
> physical limits to computation (energy, temperature, quanta,
> stuff like that).

Maybe there are "inherent physical limits" - but the ones you mention aren't.

http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/workarounds.html

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