From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 16 1999 - 20:56:41 MDT
Sasha Chislenko wrote:
>
> Anybody has suggestions for distributed computations that
> would actually be useful?
I've been thinking about how this would work for AIs. You couldn't run
Elisson, but you could run a planetary EURISKO where everyone writes
their own heuristics. On the first of every month, your spare CPU
cycles would go towards cracking that day's problem - the stock market,
say, or finding a new math theorem, or a VLSI circuit design, or
optimizing Debian Linux. (This would be the price of licensing the
EURISKoid software; the makers could sell the planetary computing power
and open-source the software.) And to answer your next question,
Intelligenesis's Webmind *is* a step in that direction, but it would
need a new programming language before it could do anything really useful.
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