[HN Gopher] Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos
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       Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos
        
       Author : crescit_eundo
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-03-27 16:51 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | skmurphy wrote:
       | He ends with a good list of five key barriers 1. Many problems
       | require new fundamental knowledge based on new physical
       | measurements and experiments.
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       | 2. Many problems require situational knowledge to create and
       | maintain complex infrastructure.
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       | 3. Moving molecules around
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       | 4. Feedback loops
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       | 5. Chaos and complexity make many phenomena hard to simulate.
        
       | ofrzeta wrote:
       | "Weather is a chaotic system. If you want to predict further in
       | the future, you'll eventually need more FLOPs and better
       | knowledge of starting conditions." - I doubt that with more FLOPs
       | you will be better able to compute chaos.
        
       | Vecr wrote:
       | An IQ of 300 is impossible, because that's 13.333... standard
       | deviations above the norm's average. Can't norm that.
        
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