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Honestly if we can get multi-core programming working we can probably keep it going. Although that is an enormous if.

• carsongross 13y ago
  Most problems are not trivially parallelizable and, in any event, Amdahl curves look a lot different than the exponential curves used to argue for The Singularity. We may have to make due with what we've got. Which, thankfully, is quite a lot.
  • marcosdumay 13y ago
    Well, our brain has a single thread performance that is already many orders of magnitude smaller than our current CPUs. Any claim that Amdahl's law will forbid human-like inteligence must explain why that isn't a problem to us. Or, like you said, yep, we do have a lot.
  • im3w1l 13y ago
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