On 02 Oct 2014, at 14:41, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:25 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
This is why I find protein folding intriguing. I see the following
possibilities:
-> Molecular interactions entail an immense computational power;
-> P = NP;
-> We are constantly winning at quantum suicide.
Am I missing something?
P=/=NP doesn't mean that NP problems require "immense computational
power" beyond what could biochemistry can provide. Being NP is just
a statement about how a problem scales with size of the input. But
for some given finite size it might be quickly solved.
Right, but with protein folding we have an interesting comparison.
Given the practical applications, many bioinformatics labs are
working on the problem. Finding the lowest energy state for many
interesting proteins seems to be beyond the capabilities of very
powerful clusters using current algorithms.
I agree with you that the most likely answer is that biochemistry
can indeed provide this computational power, but this is not an
observation devoid of interesting implications. One is
technological: imagine what we could do with biochemical computers.
The other is related to the brain: if biochemistry can unleash this
computational power, then surely the brain uses it. In which case
our estimations of how far away we are from AGI may be optimistic.
But what is an AGI? A machine which decapitate another machines
becomes the run another program?
I think that Löbian universal machines are already intelligent, and
that we can accelerate the growing of competence, although this is
utimately what intelligence is for on this plane, but this might limit
their intelligence, and indeed they might become as delusional and
'stupid' like us and get sleepy in the samsara.
Sorry for the tangents in any case.
Sorry for mine too.
Best,
Bruno
Cheers
Telmo.
Brent
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