Re: PHIL/AI : Humongous Lookup Table

Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:05:04 -0800

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Mark Grant writes
>The biggest problem with extrapolating this to human programming
>is that the human who would be trying to run the other human's
>software will have roughly equal processing power, whereas typically
>the emulators are running on computers with at least twice the
>power of the computer they're emulating.

Aha! I always wondered what sorts of things I might be able to do with a
Jupiter-sized brain that I wasn't doing already! Thanks for the tip.

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