[FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

[Marcus Daniels]

This is on one box in the living room.   Now consider an Amazon machine room the size of a football field full of machines each more powerful than this.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/05/13/unreal-engine-5s-demo-is-next-gen-graphics-showcase-youve-been-waiting/

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 1:23 PM
To: "friam at redfish.com" <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

Marcus,

Unfortunately, culture is, at minimum, NP-Hard and almost certainly NP complete.

davew


On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Dave writes:



< Similar things happen all the time when we insist on focusing on "the science" and ignore the "art" and the insights of "non-scientific" disciplines and fields of inquiry. >



It is possible to state models of cultural interactions and simulate them on a computer.   When one does this, they will have said something precise enough to be wrong.



Marcus
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