[ExI] mbrains and latency

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 1:17 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Keith I don’t think I ever responded to your comment on latency in Mbrains.
>
> 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.
>
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 google.com [enter]  then do ping
australia.gov.au [enter]  compare times.

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?

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