<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 1:17 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-5516473627555467427WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Keith I don’t think I ever responded to your comment on latency in Mbrains.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If MBrain nodes do some kind of calculation, they could still be very small and resemble dust. If created by a nanotech enabled species, a dust-sized speck of carbon can be imagined capable of some form of calculation and capable of passing the results of that calculation to its neighbor, which might be a millimeter distant. </p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">Latency is still a problem. Even with nearest neighbors at millimeter distance, farthest neighbors are on the other side of the star. Current internet latency already drives stock trading computers to reside in hotels near enough to NYSE to keep network response to ~2ms. To see this for yourself, open cmd.exe and do: ping <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> [enter] then do ping <a href="http://australia.gov.au">australia.gov.au</a> [enter] compare times.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sure, the internet is a mess of wires and routing and such which increases overhead with distance, abd that's at our small planet scale - how much more is mbrain scale?</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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