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  • #16
    Felch, of course this is fantastic and important. This means that we can still push further and further. Just like Asher said, there is a certain point after which we can start simulations of such complex things that it actually does give us lots of new information and possible break throughs. Just thinking about it, quadrillion calculations per second, that is insane.... And this in turn gives the older technology an incentive to come down, to come closer to consumer hands, giving us more computing power.

    THe point is, we can always do more. We easily think that when the next level is reached, then we don't need more computing power because we can't think of any problems to be solved. But this is false, there are tons of complex things to be solved that requires technology to go forward, and these ridiculous supercomputers to develop even further. This is to say that there is never enough computing power. It will always benefit us even more.
    In da butt.
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    • #17
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      • #18
        1) This is very good, although what was announced was an engineering breakthrough -- the computer's capability. The scientific breakthroughs are only projected based on the limits of our imagination when using a machine with this much capability.

        2) The point projected in 2015 or so is the point at which the computer asks itself interesting questions and then answers them based on available data. Soon after the machines will be forced to project data the humans haven't provided and then create answers the humans cannot understand. That is the SINGULARITY. Hopefully we will have taught those machines some philosophy, else we will quickly go extinct.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by Blaupanzer
          1) This is very good, although what was announced was an engineering breakthrough -- the computer's capability. The scientific breakthroughs are only projected based on the limits of our imagination when using a machine with this much capability.

          2) The point projected in 2015 or so is the point at which the computer asks itself interesting questions and then answers them based on available data. Soon after the machines will be forced to project data the humans haven't provided and then create answers the humans cannot understand. That is the SINGULARITY. Hopefully we will have taught those machines some philosophy, else we will quickly go extinct.
          The only philosophy they need to know is THOU WILL DO AS I SAY, ALWAYS.

          Really, though, the ethics of sentient AI life is not as complex as some people think. Asimov basically got 90% of it, and he was a fuddy-duddy writer.
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          • #20
            Yay, now I can get porn a million times faster.
            Unbelievable!

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            • #21
              Technically, this only means that you can watch porn a million times faster.
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              • #22
                He'll break his wrist.
                Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                  Technically, this only means that you can watch porn a million times faster.
                  You're just trying to piss off Darius, aren't you?
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Boris Godunov
                    He'll break his wrist.
                    Screw his wrist, he'd rub the flesh straight off his twanger.
                    The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

                    The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Asher
                      The only philosophy they need to know is THOU WILL DO AS I SAY, ALWAYS.
                      The computer will replace you with a being that always makes requests that are as easy as possible to satisfy in bulk. In more practical terms, forced wireheading, in yet more practical terms, death. You lose, but thank you for playing anyway .
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                      • #26
                        So computers that can only handle say 0.75 petaflops are useless and those that can break the magical mystical petaflop "barrier" are gonna cure cancer?

                        Yeah, great. Call me when you finish that!
                        We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Blaupanzer
                          2) The point projected in 2015 or so is the point at which the computer asks itself interesting questions and then answers them based on available data. Soon after the machines will be forced to project data the humans haven't provided and then create answers the humans cannot understand. That is the SINGULARITY. Hopefully we will have taught those machines some philosophy, else we will quickly go extinct.
                          If they're already smarter than us they won't need to be pretentious to think they're our superiors. So why would they want philosophy?
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by SpencerH
                            So computers that can only handle say 0.75 petaflops are useless and those that can break the magical mystical petaflop "barrier" are gonna cure cancer?

                            Yeah, great. Call me when you finish that!
                            I thought it had something to do with time as well? As in, 1 Petaflop would take say 1 month to process the data, as opposed to 10 years with half a petaflop.

                            My numbers are wrong of course.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by SpencerH
                              So computers that can only handle say 0.75 petaflops are useless and those that can break the magical mystical petaflop "barrier" are gonna cure cancer?

                              Yeah, great. Call me when you finish that!
                              Why would anyone call you?

                              Ever?

                              For anything?
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                              • #30
                                Rarely is it asked the question, "But will it play Crysis?"
                                The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

                                The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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