Slowing Moore's Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It

gwern

In this essay I argue the following:

Brain emulation requires enormous computing power; enormous computing power requires further progression of Moore’s law; further Moore’s law relies on large-scale production of cheap processors in ever more-advanced chip fabs; cutting-edge chip fabs are both expensive and vulnerable to state actors (but not non-state actors such as terrorists). Therefore: the advent of brain emulation can be delayed by global regulation of chip fabs.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law

In this essay I argue the following:

Brain emulation requires enormous computing power; enormous computing power requires further progression of Moore’s law; further Moore’s law relies on large-scale production of cheap processors in ever more-advanced chip fabs; cutting-edge chip fabs are both expensive and vulnerable to state actors (but not non-state actors such as terrorists). Therefore: the advent of brain emulation can be delayed by global regulation of chip fabs.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law

Big fish are starting to pay attention to LessWrong. That means people are paying attention YOU. Yes, you. This post has gotten 1,344 page views.

So, much less traffic than gwern.net gets in a month, on an arguably less controversial topic than the usual gwern.net fare.

If you use LessWrong for beta testing, you're not just getting a critique from a handful of friends, you're informing the entire world about who LessWrong is.

He's using the IRC channel, #lesswrong, as his beta testers. #lesswrong is a different thing from LessWrong.

So, much less traffic than gwern.net gets in a month, on an arguably less controversial topic than the usual gwern.net fare.

Then it's very odd that he doesn't seem to care that people are mistaking him as being in support of terrorism.

He's using the IRC channel, #lesswrong, as his beta testers. #lesswrong is a different thing from LessWrong.

Oh dear.

I assumed from the context (the fact that this thing got out onto the site without him appearing to know / care that people would think it was pro terrorism) that he was referring to the website.

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