Timeline for Why aren’t there advanced computers in an advanced society?
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| Apr 30 at 17:17 | comment | added | controlgroup | I think that that might be interesting, so @CortAmmon yes | |
| Apr 30 at 13:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 30 at 9:48 | answer | added | komodosp | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 29 at 3:34 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | How badly do you want the computers to be 1980s grade, rather than increasing the difficulty of the problem you're trying to solve. Given that we haven't found a unified theory of everything, it could be a particularly gnarly problem to solve which is much harder than the ones you're thinking of. Could an answer just raise the complexity threshold? | |
| Apr 26 at 21:13 | answer | added | Darrel Hoffman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 26 at 20:15 | comment | added | Richard | @Hearth - I was just going to say. Can't or won't | |
| Apr 26 at 9:17 | answer | added | peterf | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 25 at 12:54 | comment | added | Hearth | Have you read Dune? | |
| Apr 25 at 7:41 | answer | added | Going Durden | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 24 at 18:17 | answer | added | Line Item | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 24 at 17:31 | comment | added | Florian F | They did develop powerful computers, but as they gave control to the computers to manage their economy, the computers started to optimize them out. So they pulled the plug and made it illegal to build anyt computer more intelligent than them. | |
| Apr 24 at 16:53 | answer | added | davido | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 24 at 14:14 | answer | added | John O | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 24 at 13:43 | answer | added | André L F S Bacci | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 24 at 12:33 | comment | added | controlgroup | @TimRias I mean in the direction of finding the stress-energy tensor from a given metric, which I have done myself on even weak two-core 2GB-RAM VMs in under ten seconds since it only involves taking the first and second derivatives of the metric and then calculating the Ricci tensor from that | |
| Apr 24 at 11:18 | answer | added | Corey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 24 at 11:09 | answer | added | k_z | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 24 at 11:07 | answer | added | Hobbamok | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 24 at 6:47 | comment | added | TimRias | “The problem comes down to solving the EFEs for some complex metrics and with other constraints, which a modern human laptop can do in at most a few second ” This simply false solving the EFEs for a relatively simple dynamical system ( like a merging BH binary) takes days to weeks on modern computing clusters. | |
| Apr 24 at 4:30 | comment | added | vsz | They have no cats on their home planet, so there was no drive to develop computers powerful enough to stream videos about them. For basic automation of devices, 1980's tech level is enough. | |
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| Apr 23 at 21:54 | answer | added | abestrange | timeline score: 36 | |
| Apr 23 at 21:49 | history | edited | controlgroup | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 23 at 21:48 | comment | added | controlgroup | Something I actually considered but didn't bother putting on the question - thank you @JonCuster | |
| Apr 23 at 21:29 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Building computers out of human flesh might not go down well here on Earth. | |
| Apr 23 at 20:37 | answer | added | James Cook | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 23 at 19:33 | answer | added | Pica | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 23 at 19:29 | answer | added | In Hoc Signo | timeline score: 28 | |
| Apr 23 at 19:29 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 23 at 19:19 | comment | added | Gillgamesh | Maybe not a perfect fit but could not help but equate the question with the book "Mote in Gods Eye" They have the Alderson Drive ( mavericuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Alderson_drive ) And and alien race called Moties. (Spoilers) An alien race, separated into casts of Idiot Savants. While they do presumably have computers, they make little use of them and no need to develop better ones because it's simply easier to breed more of the Motie cast you need. | |
| Apr 23 at 19:08 | comment | added | Bubbles | If this advanced species has such advanced things without any good computers, how did they make the complex calculations in order to sustain what would probably be considered basic to them on something with less computing power than an old laptop? If you want realism, you might want a different reason for no AI if possible | |
| Apr 23 at 18:46 | history | asked | controlgroup | CC BY-SA 4.0 |