[extropy-chat] Clock rate or rather communication delays

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

If the maximum size of a mind is limited by the requirement for all of 
its computing elements be within roughly one clock tick of each other...

Then the Great Old Ones think their vast, incomprehensible thoughts very 
slowly.

By the time a mind was a few trillion times the size of a human, she 
would have to slow down to around a human clock rate.  When she grew to 
a few quintillion times the size of a human, she might start to see the 
stars moving in their slow dance across the sky.

...what's so wrong about that?

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence