[ExI] Unsolved problems

[Keith Henson]

One problem I can express, but have no idea of how to solve is the
localization problem.

There are a number of ways it can be expressed, the most general is
that computation goes up at most as the cube of the linear dimensions
while propagation delays (at best speed of light) goes up with the
linear dimension.  Human smartness may be dependent on two dimensions,
the area of the cortex.

So a large chunk of computronium, if it is to be of "one mind" has to
think slower than a smaller piece.

This leads to a human being able to think rings around a "Jupiter
brain" because of speed of light delays.

It leads to multiple AIs rather than just one of them since local
thinking will have a tendency to pinch off when the results of the
rest of an AIs brain will not report in for hours.

It leads to fundamental economics in that nearby resources are much
more valuable than far away ones.

Much of this is very familiar from biology in such terms as territoriality.

And the problem is always cropping up in distributed computing.

Keith Henson