Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos

dynomight.net/smart Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and Mozart. Now take someone smarter again by the same margin and repeat that a few times. Say this Being is created and has an IQ of 300. Let’s also say it can think at 10,000× normal speed. But it only has access to the same resources you do. Now what? Let’s assume it would quickly solve all our problems in math and programming and philosophy. (To the extent they’re solvable.) That’s plausible since progress in these fields only requires thinking. What about other fields? Other fields How good would it be at predicting the weather? We’re constantly getting better at predicting weather, because: We have faster supercomputers to run simulations. We have better data from new satellites, weather stations, and radar. We use machine learning and statistics to exploit patterns in all that data. The Being could surely design better algorithms for simulations or machine lear ... Read full article.