On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 07:47:26PM +0000, Russell Wallace wrote: > You're also a couple dozen orders of magnitude short on computing
You don't have to recrunch the total ops of the biosphere for the same reason you don't have to redo the whole four gigayears. You're already surrounded by the products of the process. Here's a major shortcut. > power, and you don't know how to set up the graded sequence of fitness Computer power will be cheap. You will live to see a single system with a mole of switches. Even now, there's a lot of crunch hiding in a sea of gates of a 300 mm wafer. The challenge is to get the mainstream to unlock it. Simulations for gaming and virtual reality are a good driver. Cell does a quarter of a teraflop. Intel Tera Scale does over a teraflop, soon. Blue Gene next-gen will do a petaflop. When your home box does a petaflop, and there are billions of such on the network, that's not negligible. Not because there are a lot of of them, but because a lot of people will own a petaflop box. > functions. That said, if you or anyone else wants to actually take a The first and biggest step is to get your system to learn how to evolve. I understand many do not yet see this as a problem at all. > shot at that route, let me know if you want a summary of conclusions > and ideas I got to before I moved away from it. I don't understand why you moved away from it (it's the only game in town), but if you have a document of your conclusions to share, fire away. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
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