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Where have you missed 3 times more IPC performance? This is the number of instructrions per cycle, not the measure of cycles. Well, sorry, now I have lost you. What are you speaking about? Is it your interpretation that Moore's law is about clock frequency?! I often wish many people would get other...

You are interpreting the law in strange ways. But even so, you are wrong about resulting computer power. I looks like you misinterpret "clock speed" for "performance". Adding more cores IS legit way how to sidestep MHz limit. E.g. especially for simulating neural networks, more cores are just as fi...

Furthermore, Moore's law hasn't held true in nearly 10 years. Systems have not been getting smaller and faster. To step around this issue, we've added more cores, but the truth of the matter is, barring a major break-through, we're hitting our limit in major computing power. We're already fabricati...

I repeat, "SKYNET" will be run by Humans at the top. They will be dictators, and they will use the machines to force obedience on those of us outside of their clique. For some limited time, maybe. In the long term, singularity comes and whatever we think about the future will be obsolete. Personall...

Cool ideas to be sure, but we lack the ability to create awareness. Yet. If Moore's law continues to work, we get there by around 2040. In fact, I think the combined HW of world or even some google data center _might_ have the raw HW power now (if you count in that brain might be ineffective dealin...

Cool ideas to be sure, but we lack the ability to create awareness. Yet. If Moore's law continues to work, we get there by around 2040. In fact, I think the combined HW of world or even some google data center _might_ have the raw HW power now (if you count in that brain might be ineffective dealin...

I could swear I read a press release by BLP, that they were about to sell their reactor to major eletricity providers. That was years ago. Still nothing. If a software company does that with one of their products, the whole industry makes fun of them (think of Duke Nuken Forever) and their product ...

GIThruster wrote: File sharing sites will certainly not survive if SOPA or some refined version goes into US law.

File-sharing sites maybe, piracy no.

The only thing SOPA could achieve w.r.t. piracy is that some form of distributed DNS (and later complete dark-net) is developed somewhat sooner than without SOPA.

Although, those of us who are relatively younger and have no major health problems may make it to somewhere around 150 years with the aforementioned organ replacements grown from our own cells. Good thing is that each year you "survive", new technolgies might emerge to make you live even longer. Wi...

Besides, being a space nut I want to see some population pressure to drive us outwards. Building domed cities in craters on the moon and on Mars is an interesting idea, but how about we test the designs out here on Earth first? Oceans! Given that most of earth surface is water, what about living in...

Quite often what works on mice doesn't work on humans, but assuming it does and we all live three times longer, overpopulation becomes an issue. Only countered by having a third as many children, babies would become a very rare sight. Well, it would only be continuation of existing trend. Plus, eve...

I think a moon base would be feasible for less than a couple of billion, including a fair amount of habitation. A lot of robotic construction, and sending machines to build machines to build machines and things though. Since the cost for getting to LEO dominates, especially for slower robotic/unman...

The machine doesn't have to reproduce, the factory does. There is very little difference between self-replicating machine and factory. In other words, such machine is basically a factory to produce the same machines. It goes without saying that it can produce other things too. First space colonies ...

Skipjack wrote:Either way in danger of sounding like a broken record. This is all futile until we get the cost of the pound to orbit waaaaay down.

Actually, this is all futile until we are able to create small self-replicating machine.

Then the cost of the pound to orbit will not matter that much...

then again, why would anyone in theoir right mind climb out af a deep well only to jump down another? Once you are in space, colonize SPACE. Can you say "O'Neill"? Years ago I read that weightlessness causes severe atrophy of muscles and bones, and that it is impossible for the human body to remain...