Fwd from Charlie Stross: Re: Time travel-->fast algorithms-->Singularity??

From: Cole Kitchen (kitchenc@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 16:22:34 MST


Note: Stross discusses the Brun paper and the FTL/SI connection in an
October 28 entry in his blog (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi)
(click the preceding link and search in the resulting Web page for
"Computing with Time Machines"),

>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:50:36 +0000
>From: Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org>
>To: Cole Kitchen <kitchenc@mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: Time travel-->fast algorithms-->Singularity??
>User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i
>Sender: Charlie Stross <charlie@raq3.antipope.org>
>
>On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:49:34AM -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > P.S. For another take on the importance of fast algorithms to the
> > Singularity, see Charles Stross's story "Antibodies," available in his
> > collection TOAST: AND OTHER RUSTED FUTURES
> >
> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587154137/qid%3D1035768132/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-9410822-5173755).
>
>
>Ahem: see also my novel "Singularity Sky", due out in August 2003 from
>Ace Books[*]. (It's a post-singularity space opera. Want faster than light
>space drives in your SF? You've gotta deal with causality violation --
>and the emergence of super-intelligences -- as side-effects.)
>
>
>-- Charlie
>
>[*] And due out in February 2003 from Big Engine in the UK as "Festival
>of Fools". (Same book, two titles.)



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