Re: poly: Jupiter brain learning (was The singleton hypothesis)

From: Robin Hanson <hanson@econ.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon May 04 1998 - 15:40:58 PDT

Curt Adams:
>As I understand it, the working hypothesis in math is that it is possible to
>cook up problems exceeding any particular available computer power. So
>presumably there are games where even immortal Jupiter brains could polish
>their strategy indefinitely.

Then the question is whether any plausible alien war games are such complex
enough games.

Robin Hanson
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Received on Mon May 4 22:46:32 1998

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