aaaaand.. we're all dead

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by BigHurb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

wish i could say it was nice knowing you all!

"the rate at which we transmit and analyze data is infinitesimal compared to how fast a computer can do it. Would they even want to bother?

Jeff Atwood takes a look at how a computer's timescale breaks down, and relates it to human timeframes. It's interesting to note the huge variance in latency. If we consider one CPU cycle to take 1 second, then a sending a ping across the U.S. would take the equivalent of 4 years. A simple conversation could take the equivalent of thousands of years. Would any consciousness be able to deal with such a relative delay?""

our brains are still faster right now. the trend is a logic line of moore's law mixed with some ad infinitum that a lot of science depends on, but the asymptote gets too close to the axis eventually; and then the line breaks down because the trustees of it lose their trust in it.