[MURG] oh, the other thing

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:31:46PM +0200, Scalino Corleone wrote:

> Just tell me, I'm worried suddenly... Isn't there a thing called
> "multi-threaded software" in AI/uploading systems prototypes? ;)

No, for the speedy stuff you need direct mapping of connectivity to 3d
integrated dedicated molecular circuitry hardware. The only way to fork is to
copy an instance of it to a new module. Notice at signalling latency becomes
very noticeable at 10^6 speedup, while power dissipation sets upper limits to
module densities. Best arrangement seems to be circumsolar hardware clouds
(or smaller assemblies, rotating around a common center of mass, with power
sources intermingled or at central location).

Buckytronics switches up to 100 GHz, there seem to be limits to nonvolatile
spintronics switching. Also, solid-state qubits seem to be no longer
vaporware, though how practical error-correction at nontrivial entanglement
and neuro algorithm mapping is is anybody's guess.
 
> And if you don't speed up yourself (or merely can't), well... by the

Speed is a question of price.

> time you'd finished your sentence, I would have : gotten my new emails,
> read and answered them, made love to my uploaded girlfriend, smoked my
> cigarette, and ... oops, sorry, what were you saying? (I've got another
> clock cycle) :D

As I said, 1 day: ~3000 years at a mere 10^6 speedup rate. This doesn't even
address quality of experience (god vs. dog).

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