[extropy-chat] IQ vs Uploads

[Dirk Bruere]

Adrian Tymes wrote:

>--- Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>If I were a dastardly SI (or just one who was concerned with
>>achieving
>>autonomy), trapped in a desktop or two, with internet access and
>>access to my own source, I'd first get myself out onto as many
>>machines as possible, looking for the same machines that spammers and
>>DDOSers turn into zombies; you know, all those lovely fast brand new
>>machines out there in consumer homes with broadband but no firewall.
>>    
>>
>
>Assuming, of course, that desktop machines would be capable of running
>you - either alone or networked (taking communication errors and, more
>importantly, latency into effect).  Which is not beyond all
>possibility, but it seems likely that the first several SIs will only
>be able to run on specialized hardware - standard supercomputers, if
>not even more specialized - which tends to have at least adequate
>security.  (E.g., for supercomputers, the mere CPU power itself is a
>viable asset they want to protect; regular consumer desktops, OTOH, use
>little enough of their CPU power that they have many of their cycles to
>spare.)
>  
>
There is another possibility, that the AI will run on a grid formed from 
Net connected PCs.

-- 
Dirk

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