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That's a very generous threshold for usefulness. For difficult interactive tasks—like, perhaps, performing fiddly repair work on a $2.5bn+ satellite—there is cl
by leoc 13y ago
That's a very generous threshold for usefulness. For difficult interactive tasks—like, perhaps, performing fiddly repair work on a $2.5bn+ satellite—there is clearly some advantage to not having a ping of 2000 or even 350.
- Dylan16807 13y agoThe human mind has a pretty awful ping time, and there's no reason not to take things slow in microgravity.
- leoc 13y ago> The human mind has a pretty awful ping time But unless the repair is going to be conducted by an AI—highly unlikely in the foreseeable future—then this is moot, as there will be a human brain in the loop in either case.
- Dylan16807 13y agoIt's not moot. A high fixed latency from involving humans makes it far less useful to reduce the control latency by a quarter of a second.