I think we can make a small concession to the Tintnerooni (aka Tintner Machine) that we don't really have any parallel algorithms as such, or if we do we assume we (pretend we) can guarantee something like A will happen before B, or A and B will cause C and D "atomically" (I am borrowing the term from database ACID guarantees , and basically we expose ourselves to extreme non-linearity and chaotic behaviors from which we usually try to shield our algorithms, so yeah, in a sense we don't really have parallel algorithms, just as we don't have numeric algorithms "in general" because of all the truncating and butchering that numbers (quantities) suffer inside our algorithms. So yeah, we are faking it but for large classes of problems we can fake it pretty well. As I've stated multiple times, I am quite optimistic about our ability to engineer AGI with the current, perhaps limited, toolset which we haven't really pushed to its limits, not by any stretch of the imagination.
Perhaps a complexity scientist could comment on whether chaotic phenomena are algorithmic in some stronger or weaker sense, but I fear she would simply assert that she could approximate them algorithmically to arbitrarily small errors. By analogy to the 3-body problem and n-body problem I would conjecture that all parallel systems are chaotic, that is all universes, all intellects, all lifeforms. AT AT On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:44 PM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > Also using multi core processors, FPGA, VLSI, etc. and some form of IPC, > RTOS, networking interface, etc. you can have a billion random number > generators interacting with each other in parallel and in real-time. You > could compose and play a million songs in parallel on your piano ... > > By the way ... > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=DAcjV60RnRw<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAcjV60RnRw>;-) > > > > On 05/12/2013 11:13 AM, Steve Richfield wrote: > >> Should someone tell Mike about random number generators? >> >> > > > ------------------------------**------------- > AGI > Archives: > https://www.listbox.com/**member/archive/303/=now<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/**member/archive/rss/303/** > 14050631-7d925eb1<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/14050631-7d925eb1> > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/** > member/?&id_**secret=14050631-0f2019c2<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
