On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 6:45 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Plan is to let AGI figure out how to make replicating hardware to process > big data. To further improve nanobot efficiency and abilities of nanobots. > That's called evolution. Any ideas on how to speed it up? Evolution is slow (3 billion years) because each generation adds at most 1 bit of information. And that's with 10^37 bits of DNA storage in 10^31 organisms replicating in parallel. Freitas did a study on the physics of ecophagy. Replication speed is limited by energy and heat dissipation. Moving atoms costs on the order of kT ~ 4 x 10^-21 J, still a billion times less than transistor operations. Biology comes pretty close. He calculated that bacteria sized nanobots could replicate every 15 minutes, about the speed of living bacteria. But maybe we could do better. Plants use less than 1% of available solar energy. We already have solar cells using 20-30% and are made mostly of the 4 most common elements in the Earth's crust: oxygen, silicon, aluminum, and iron. Humans now use 15 TW of energy globally, hardly any coming from the 90,000 TW of available sunlight. Or maybe you have a different idea? ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T719d62b40213c0a8-Mf44a7d937302abc7cf3667af Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
