Nanofog can't really work due to communication overhead. Also nano-tech micro-organisms would only do well in a liquid medium, where all the necessary elements could be attained by just waiting for the current to provide them.
However on land, as most planets/moons in our solar system have a terrestrial surface, the best kind would be a clanking replicator. With various division of labour, similar to RTS games like star-craft glob2 etc. There would be miners, energy collectors, factories, repair or healers, and an "overmind" or a set of programmers that maintain the software and general plan of the community. This kind of clanking-replicator community could operate in a polar-desert where it has plenty of time and little interference, or potentially in the e-waste recycling desert villages of china where resources would be plentiful. Many of the components are already available, though it would probably take at least another decade or more for all of them. In terms of cost, one of the largest parts is the initial hardware, which as with moore's law should decrease over time. The software, would have to be open source, there is already software for lots of manufacturing, though this would be on a smaller more customized scale, there are already plenty of open source RTS AI's that get the gist of a clanking community. It could be done with an AGI, and may be much simpler than simulating a human brain. While making an actually live fully technological community. I think On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:11 PM, John G. Rose <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Russell Wallace [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > K- complexity is about the shortest program given infinite computing > power, > > which is a very different thing from the most efficiently constructible > > program given limited computing power. > > > > So two minimal AGI's, one is more efficient at doing most things using the > same computing resources. How do you describe that efficiency? > > Power is definitely in there using watts for example. > > John > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/5037279-a88c7a6d > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
