Re: Seeking extropian opinion: GIMPS vs SETI?

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• [ Next ][ Previous ] In reply to: Sasha Chislenko Next in thread: Michael S. Lorrey

Sasha Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com> writes:

> Anybody has suggestions for distributed computations that
> would actually be useful?

Distributed genetic algorithms to try to find good solutions to problems? But the set of interesting problems with easily calculated fitness functions may be small; most of the really interesting problems (like AI or making good search agents) have rather diffuse fitness.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anders Sandberg                                      Towards Ascension!
asa@nada.kth.se                            http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y

• [ Next ][ Previous ] In reply to: Sasha Chislenko Next in thread: Michael S. Lorrey