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> The question is, what is the economic effect of a given number of computations? Which computations? Computations to render another monster on the screen of s
by derleth 15y ago
> The question is, what is the economic effect of a given number of computations?
Which computations? Computations to render another monster on the screen of someone playing Doom 3? Near-zero. Computations run on a quant's computer to hint at a market trend? Potentially massive.
It isn't a question you can answer in general. I doubt it's even a question you can approximate an answer to in any sane fashion.
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoI don't think it's that difficult and not even that different between industries because it's all relative to what is possible. Both 3D shooter games and quant traders always needed to be in about the same place on the technology curve in order to succeed economically. You could compare the hardware requirements of today's best selling 3D shooter games to the hardware requirements of the original Doom. One hours worth of game play uses x CPU instructions, y kWh of energy and earns the maker of the game z dollars. You could do something similar to compare today's best quant trading desks to those of 10 or 15 years ago. Actually you could just as well ignore CPU instructions entirely and just compute dollars earned per kWh for a few computing heavy industries. Obviously that's very crude and there are lots of missing variables but I don't think it's meaningless.