Armok_GoB comments on [SEQ RERUN] Brain Emulation and Hard Takeoff - Less Wrong

1 Post author: MinibearRex 14 November 2012 06:47AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 14 November 2012 10:42:56PM 0 points [-]

Was this written before the existence of things like Amazon Cloud? It seems fairly obvious that EMs would be run in a way where what matters is not some slow to change piece of hardware you own, but fungible computing cycles you can buy however many you can afford at a fixed price at any given second.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 November 2012 02:33:56AM 1 point [-]

Depends on whether the EMs rely on custom hardware.

Comment author: bsterrett 15 November 2012 06:45:39PM 0 points [-]

Has there been some previous discussion of reliance on custom hardware? My cursory search didn't turn anything up.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 15 November 2012 06:11:50PM -1 points [-]

There is no reason for them to do that and a million reasons for them not to.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 November 2012 01:41:15AM 1 point [-]

There is no reason for them to do that

Why? Cutting edge computation frequently requires custom hardware.