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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
9 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Philosophical BS. Nobody can go to god and kick the plug out of his pc. If that guy is pretending to be some kind of genius he's succeeding at being an asshole. "Moore's Law" has a limit imposed by physics and economics and I consider it a postulation more than a law. The only reason it has been correct is because individuals and companies are after growth after profit. When conditions are no longer favorable for the increases they will slow and, eventually, stop.
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6/15/10, 12:33 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Nothing wrong with being philosophical. This is merely an updated version of "suppose our galaxy is but a single atom in some other galactic dog's poop?" that we all discussed in college. I find it fascinating, and not at all inimical to my belief in God.
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6/15/10, 2:04 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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You can watch the entire episode HERE
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6/15/10, 2:21 PM
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Tony Neville said...
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Fascinating... So it is really God's fault I like porno.
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6/15/10, 2:41 PM
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Anonymous said...
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"You are in the Matrix, Neo." Yadda-yadda...
Bah -- just pull the plug.
Robert -
6/15/10, 3:11 PM
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Anonymous said...
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"The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord." "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that cvauseth to err from the words of knowledge." Prov. 19:3 &27
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith." 1 Tim 6:20-21 also 2Pet 3:3+
mary -
6/15/10, 3:26 PM
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DougM said...
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Three problems:
1) See Tony, above: 99% of sufficiently life-like technology efforts will be dedicated to defense and porn.
2) Key word: simulation. (see also: fiction)
Writers, artists, performers, and toy makers have already filled our culture with man-crated sentient beings and god-like beings. Doing it digitally would just be a new kind of ... sculpture.
3) The Krell problem.
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6/15/10, 4:22 PM
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Corsair, The Mostly Harmless said...
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Anon above is correct. He's NOT the first person to come up with the "our universe is a simulation" idea, and Moore's Law has essentially stalled out over the last couple of years due to the limitations of the photolithographic process used to make microprocessors. the processor speed has stalled right around the 3 Ghz range because we can't jame the curuits any closer, or drive them any harder due to electron "leakage" from one curcuit to another.
What we have been seeing instead, are minor improvements to the way memory is being handled, and jamming more processing cores onto the dies. two years ago you might have purchased a single core 2.6 Ghz Dell or HP computer. Now for the same money you get a 4 core system. Essentally, four 2.6 Ghz cpu's in the same chassis. This lets you multitaks better, but each CPU core is still doing about the same work as the old single. Intel has announce their 6 and 8 core chips, and expect 12 core server side chips next year. In general terms, the "stream" of work isn't getting faster, but broader. Works GREAT for those of us that do massivly parallel computational projects (new drug formulation, protein folding, etc). If you can break down a huge problem into smail grain chucks, you can afrm out portions of the task to clusters of cpu to work on in parallel, and solve the problem quickly. The general PC user isn't seeing a huge boost for them however. -
6/16/10, 9:14 AM
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Corsair, The Mostly Harmless said...
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Sigh. Coffee and a spell checker would have been my friend this AM.
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6/16/10, 9:16 AM
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