Comment on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:41:49 GMT

Yes, and I'm leaning towards 1.

I am not familiar whether e.g. papers like these ("We show that the protein folding problem in the two-dimensional H-P model is NP-complete.") accurately models what we'd call "protein folding" in nature (just because the same name is used), but prima facie there is no reason to doubt the applicability, at least for the time being. (This precludes 2.)

Regarding 3, I don't think it would make sense to say "reality is using only a good approximation of protein folding, and by the way, we define protein folding as that which occurs in nature." That which happens in reality is precisely - and by definition not only an approximation of - that which we call "protein folding", isn't it?

What do you think?

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