Eugene Leitl writes,
> Seriously, did you ever do a back of the envelope? You need a lot more
> than a few minutes, unless your starting point is way above the
> urslime.
back of the envelope? Whazzat? I was thinking that evolutionary algorithms can
iterate in microseconds as opposed to the days, weeks, months, years, decades
required for living organisms to replicate and produce new generations.
Natural selection in digital computers cycles billions of times faster than
natural selection in biology, right?
(I'm still counting on un-natural selection to insure that AI would want to be
friendly.)
--J. R.
"J. Doyne Farmer was in that group of physicists at Los Alamos who were starting
to think about complexity, nonlinear phenomena, and adaptive systems. They began
to realize that things like 'strange attractors' were really ubiquitous in any
kind of system -- economic systems and biological systems, not just physical
systems. That was an incredibly important idea, because it allowed all these
people to start talking to each other."
--W. Daniel Hillis
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