[ExI] Meat v. Machine

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:33:41PM -0800, spike wrote:

> Yes by all means, snip that.  Far too pessimistic methinks.  We should be
> able to write a good simulation of builder-bots operating 1.3 seconds away,

You don't need to write anything, other than adding a delay in the control
flow and the video feed in current virtual world simulators. For a lark,
you could even add 1/6 g to the physics, though that is not strictly 
required.

It would be possible to build local reflexes with avatar scripting.

> and see what we could accomplish with that modest level of latency.  Once
> one gets the rhythm, we will be able to do plenty of building with a 2.6
> second round trip feedback loop.

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