[MURG] Neuropeptide Function?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:59:08AM -0500, Yan King Yin wrote:

> Complete modeling is *NOT* necessary. We can apply statistical

It's not necessary for the final model. Unfortunately, I don't see how to
obtain that magic without having to wallow through mud of complexity first.

AIs don't have that handicap, you can breed them from scratch so they'll
breed the right encoding to fit the hardware. We're encrusted with legacy in
comparison. Not good.

> I have thought about it recently quite in depth. I think the
> future will be a balance of power between and amongst uploads,
> AIs, humans riding AIs, humans, other organisms, and computer
> viruses etc. A single AI taking over is highly unlikely, so I
> don't worry too much about that.

We have a planetful of networked hardware which is swiss cheese security-wise
(especially, if you automate remote exploit generation). TBit/s backplane
switches are a commodity, 10 GBit Ethernet on the local LAN is a couple of
years away. Extrapolate three decades into the future.

Do you see uploads by then? I don't.

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