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That seems a very specific/narrow point, not a general objection. But anyway: I guess its possible human biological hardware does something difficult to simula
by feral 10y ago
That seems a very specific/narrow point, not a general objection.
But anyway: I guess its possible human biological hardware does something difficult to simulate on a computer (at least one similar to our current architectures.)
Given a super advanced intelligence, though, I doubt adding hardware that does protein folding (or the protein folding analogue operation) fast - in biology if necessary - is going to be a major obstacle.
And that's if it can't come up with an algorithm that does an equivalent operation, that runs well on whatever hardware it already has.
- narrator 10y agoIf we could compute everything in a living system in polynomial time or better then we could design drugs inside of a computer and that technology would be worth billions! Seriously, until we are doing drug design with computers, we don't really understand biological systems well enough to simulate them inside a computer. Drugs interact with folded up proteins all the time so this requires simulation of protein folding and this algorithm is exponential time complexity, so basically not computable for anything but extremely trivial problems.