Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In rec.arts.sf.science Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> > Don't forget the role of networking either.  More and more software
> > relies on increasingly wide communication patterns.  Rightly so in
> > many cases (but not all).  Unless we can crack FTL, latency for
> > worldwide communication will always be noticeable.
> 
> Never say never. :) If you can send the transmission in a straight line,
> whether by neutrinos or gravitons or simply (hah) by boring a hole, the
> round trip is 85ms which is just on the threshold of being detectable by
> the average human.
> 
> Anyway, latency hiding can help for more normal communications links. If
> you're chatting with someone over a realtime voice link, just have your
> massively superhuman AI build up a model of the other guy's brain, then
> use it to construct his responses in advance.

And if the AI gets it wrong? (I'm assuming the AI isn't capable of
simulating the entire physical universe, being only part of it.)

Does it admit it predicted wrongly, or interpolate some ums and ahs?

Jonathan