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> Moore's law is dying. Computers are not going to get much faster, or much cheaper. Moore's law doesn't really matter. We're just at the beginning of computer
by elcomet 7y ago
> Moore's law is dying. Computers are not going to get much faster, or much cheaper.
Moore's law doesn't really matter. We're just at the beginning of computers, they will get much faster and powerful in the years - decades to come.
I just read this for example: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chip-carbon-nanotubes-not-silicon-marks-computing-milestone https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chip-carbon-nanotubes-no...
- goatlover 7y agoSo computers are unlike any other technology?
- scottlocklin 7y agoYes, computers are the field computer people labor in, unlike any other technology. Whiggery is kind of the US/anglophone national religion. It's going to be amusing to watch people losing their minds as progress grinds to a halt. In fact, one might argue that is what is happening right now.
- elcomet 7y agoWhat do you mean? I think they are like any other technology, we keep making improvements to them.
- goatlover 7y agoBut we don't make exponential improvements once the technology matures. The parent was either claiming that computers are different, or computing hardware won't mature for decades to come.
- luc4sdreyer 7y ago> they will get much faster and powerful in the years No one knows that, and we are extremely bad at predicting scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Yes, it's plausible that we'll have faster computers in the next 30 years. Twice as fast? A hundred times? A million times? No one knows. Although I agree with you answer, but for another reason: AGI doesn't have to look like a brain simulation, in the same sense that helicopters and rockets don't look like birds.