"Sam" (samwellington)
06/14/2016 at 13:16 • Filed to: None
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"Sam" (samwellington)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson described it as “nerd rapture”. The future is now (well, 50-100 years from now, well within 20-30 year olds’ life time), folks.
The real question is - how would you deal with a mental immortality? Would anything actually matter if you were living forever inside a computer simulation (which we could very well be doing right now, we just don’t know it)?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolog…
Nibbles
> Sam
06/14/2016 at 13:32 |
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I, for one, welcome The Singularity
Vlachen
> Nibbles
06/14/2016 at 13:41 |
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luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!
> Sam
06/14/2016 at 13:54 |
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That chart is very interesting. It made me do some googling. I had never seen Moore’s law with a cost factor before.
From Wikipedia: ” Moore’s law ( /mrz.l/ ) is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.”
It has been in the news in recent years that Moore’s law is not holding. It seems that Ray Kurzweil, or someone at the Singularity Institute had the idea to modify the idea and insert, “for the same price” into it, and extend the idea to the pre-integrated circuit era.
I don’t know what data is used to make the chart above, but it looks very compelling.
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Sam
> luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!
06/14/2016 at 14:02 |
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I’ve been listening to a lot of StarTalk (great podcast, by the way), which had an episode featuring and interview with Kurtzwell, and they pointed out that Moore’s law is really more of Moore’s *trend*, since it doesn’t always hold true. I believe the chart is basically just a hypothesis assuming that we continue to see the same exponential growth in technology for the next 100 years. We are already nearing the point of computers that can simulate one human brain, so the chart seems to be fairly accurate.
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Sam
> Nibbles
06/14/2016 at 14:03 |
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It's gonna be the ultimate holodeck. Or the machines will gain complete sentience and conquer the Earth.
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luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!
> Sam
06/14/2016 at 14:12 |
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That’s true about it being a trend. Moore was really just making an observation about the integrated circuit. What impressed me was the low scatter on the red data points over such a long period of time. Compare it to this chart:
Out, but with a W - has found the answer
> luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!
06/14/2016 at 16:39 |
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One of our professors also posited that Moore’s law is actually a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, as it provides a set goal for the industry, especially with the current timeframe-, cost- and power-corrections.
Dusty Ventures
> Sam
06/14/2016 at 20:11 |
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Sam
> Dusty Ventures
06/14/2016 at 20:31 |
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Now we just need time travel.
Did you know that the current idea of time travel says that it will prevent paradoxes from happening? Basically everything that happens in the past is set in stone, and the universe will even create improbable situations in order to maintain it. That's assuming that the past actually still exists, unlike the future. Crazy stuff, man.
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Dusty Ventures
> Sam
06/14/2016 at 20:49 |
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Honestly that’s an easier concept for me to grasp than it not being set in stone
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Sam
> Dusty Ventures
06/14/2016 at 20:53 |
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Yep, it makes sense when you get down to it. It does eliminate the notion of free will, though, which is an interesting issue.
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Dusty Ventures
> Sam
06/14/2016 at 21:06 |
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Speaking of free will, here’s a mindfuck for you:
TDogg
> Dusty Ventures
06/14/2016 at 21:53 |
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Cool video. Good share.
Brain exploding. Nbd.