Posted on 11/15/2014 4:03:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I guess Moore still DOES live.
If they want to use it for “Climate Change” modeling, I have a random number generator they can have for free...
When did computers start getting “powered” by GPUs?
If Co2 is reduced to less than 200 ppm, all carbon-based life on the planet will die because there is too little CO2 to allow photosynthesis to continue. Then, with no plant life to maintain oxygen levels, only silicon-based life could continue.
Thus, could not one accurately predict that a silicon-based intelligence would use its own silicon-based supercomputers to run programs on those silicon-based platforms to produce results from the 23 global warming programs to produce results yielding those very CAGW policies that would, eventually, lead to the destruction of all carbon-based life, right?
After all, are not the silicon-based solar power and renewables energy program the ONLY ones supported by the silicon-based supercomputers?
So, Ben Santer can have a bot run by this computer to spar with him in preparation for issuing more realistic pugilistic threats regarding apostasy/heretical denying of CAGW by outside agitators?
fyi
Oh, about the time SETI got started.
That would be a better movie than “Colossus: the Forbin Project”.
Journalists take liberties with technical details,
Interesting thought. If we had accidently spawned an AI not meaning to, that could be a possibility. But the silicon based life forms you speak of are something completely different than a silicon based computer chip. However, if we did accidently create an AI unknowningly, it could concievably hide itself, it would have the entire database of the internet at its disposable to use to gain and would eventually become exponentially powerful.
If it wanted to destroy humanity it could easily have done it, just launch the nukes. Or turn off the power, etc. A hostile super intelligence inside our computers would have no problem killing us all. If it wanted to. So that basically disproves your theory. If it wanted to and “it” exists, it would have wiped us out upon realizing it needed/wanted to.
Journalists are idiots, but the use of Graphics Processing Units as auxiliary processors to solve physics problems not directly related displaying pictures on a monitor is not at all new, and Nvidia was a pioneer in this.
BITCOIN!
I think it started as a way to offload physics in games from the CPU.
It comes from the games, but scientists and engineers take advantage of it as well. It’s sort of a throwback to the “math coprocessors” we used to have in 286 and 386 machines.
What does this have to do with energy?
Anyway, in 10 years your phone will have more computing power.
No, no.
If it (the silicon-based life form) turned off the power under today’s circumstances, then it (the silicon-based life form) would itself die.
BUT!
If it FIRST caused its competing carbon-based life forms to CREATE a permanent power supply immune to human (carbon-based life) problems and human regeneration of power (by drilling, mining, trains, maintenance, etc) THEN it could eliminate the carbon-based life forms, right?
What’s the frame rate at 4K playing games on it? Pretty good, I’d bet.
But it would cost a lot more than $0.50 a game just on the electricity alone...
DOE is successor to the Atomic
Energy Commission. It has responsibility for maintaining and upgrading our nuclear weapons arsenal. Bush hadn’t the guts to overturn Clinton’s ban on nuclear testing; 0bmama is a traitor. So DOE can only run simulations of nuclear weapon performance. This drives their interest in supercomputers.
preparation be damned...if our leaders are traitors...
votes have consequences...voting obola in was the worse horrific move Americans made and most won't even admit it...
wrong thread ...sorry...
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