From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 17:50:35 MST
On Dec 17, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Simon Gordon wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> wrote:
>> 3. Bring about the singularity will suddenly, and
>> drastically,
>> increase the amount of computational power used by
>> Earth (due to
>> super-intelligences, sudden proliferation of upload
>> copies, etc).
>
> But the overall amount of computations is not
> increasing, all we are doing is organising them. We
> are simply converting natural computations into useful
> computations.
No, you're exchanging computation which may not be
performed (if no one observes it closely enough to
notice a discrepancy) into computation which must
be performed. Right now, most of the solar system
can use non-quantum models, if this is a human-centric
simulation, since there are no tools available to
study the matter away from the vicinity of the surface
of the Earth.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "It is a question of different axioms, not a defect in the brain, that makes a man religious." -- John C. Wright
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