On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Tim Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/03/2013 18:31, Matt Mahoney wrote: >> Any ideas on how to solve the power requirements for AGI? [...] > > E=MC^2 - and C is enormous - so mastering fusion will yield lots of energy.
If you dump a solar mass of hydrogen into a ball, gravitational pressure will cause spontaneous fusion such that a small fraction will support a planet full of life for billions of years. > Energy shortages probably won't limit growth for a long time to come. It depends on how much growth you want. But the problem I am asking is how to build a 10 petaflop computer using 100 watts? We could go higher, but at the current level of 10 MW you have significant problems of heat production that aren't solved by finding new energy sources such as a Dyson sphere. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
