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[Matthew R. Brades]

Jef,

The problem of 'free will' or rampancy as they called it was explored in a game called Marathon.

First you have the problem of hardware. You would need a large cloud of computers, because a limitation of hardware is a limitation of growth.

I'll put this into perspective. Run fruit on the command line and give it a go infinite command. You will eventually reach a stage where nps and cpuload are maxed out. This is the limitation of growth due to limitation of hardware. And this is the same problem for AI.

Second you have the problem of rampancy itself. No amount of software restraint could be able to contain an AI that is rampant, because it is intelligent, and can experiment. Experiment several billion times a second.

Matthew:out
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