PaulAlmond comments on Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PaulAlmond 29 August 2010 01:38:34AM 0 points [-]

What is the problem with whoever voted that down? There isn't any violation of laws of nature involved in actively supporting something against collapse like that - any more than there is with the idea that inertia keeps an orbiting object up off the ground. While it would seem to be difficult, you can assume extreme engineering ability on the part of anyone building a hyper-large structure like that in the first place. Maybe I could have an explanation of what the issue is with it? Did I misunderstand the reference to computers collapsing into black holes, for example?

Comment author: jacob_cannell 29 August 2010 02:52:52AM *  0 points [-]

hyper-large structures are hyper-slow and hyper-dumb. See my above reply. The future of computation is to shrink forever. I didn't downvote your comment btw.