[ExI] Old stuff on this list

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM,  BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Kelly Anderson  wrote:
>> I agree with the rest of your post, but why would you think we would
>> not choose to live in the deep ocean if we're in virtual reality
>> anyway? Seems like a pretty safe place to hide out, little radiation,
>> pretty stable heat and pressure, and what is the pressure going to
>> hurt? You could even power yourself off a geothermal vent and get off
>> of solar altogether.

Maybe, but I don't think you could harvist enough power to run the
community off geothermal.  Have to research this

>> Loved the rest, but this left me scratching my head wondering why you
>> would say this particular thing. After all, we talk about going into
>> outer space all the time...

The reason to put the hardware in the deep ocean is cooling  That's
related to latency because it becomes hard to cool a lot of closely
spaced heat generators.  It's hard to beat cold water for cooling.

Trying to do the same thing in space would result in a very spread out
radiator and much higher latency.  That is thinking and communication
would be much slower.
>
> That's the point. I can't see AIs shutting themselves away from the
> rest of the universe.

The community lives on Barsoom or whereever they want.  This just
taking about the hardware level.

> Admittedly. the outside universe will appear nearly frozen due to
> their mental speedup, but going to the bottom of the sea????
> I just assumed they would want to see what was going on outside. Just
> in case the sun went nova, or something.

If you want to access any web camera feed from anywhere, you can.

But for your specific example, what use would it be to know the sun went nova?

Keith