RolfAndreassen comments on New report: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2013 11:14PM

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 03 May 2013 04:18:28PM 2 points [-]

When I wrote my thesis, a major limiting factor was the speed of the computers doing the analysis; I would start the latest variant of my program in the afternoon, and come back next morning to see what it reported. I'm currently working on software to take advantage of massively-parallel processors to speed up this process by a couple of orders of magnitude.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 May 2013 01:31:42AM 3 points [-]

Next time, try shifting processing resources from your brain to the analytic computers until neither is waiting on the other!

Comment author: itaibn0 04 May 2013 05:57:02PM 0 points [-]

Ahem

I'm currently working on software to take advantage of massively-parallel processors to speed up this process by a couple of orders of magnitude.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 May 2013 06:52:13PM 1 point [-]

But then his brain will be too slow.

Comment author: CCC 04 May 2013 07:43:55PM 0 points [-]

The difficulty of brain-computer interfaces is that the brain does not appear to work with any known executable format, making running anything on it something of a hit-and-miss affair.

Of course, he could solve this by simply increasing the precision of his computer calculations until it's the right speed for his brain...