https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15/tags/2105.rssNew Posts Tagged 'computers' - Scientific SpeculationScientific Speculation - Codidact2020-12-21T21:45:40Zhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/280079Difference between 'AWPP' and standard quantum physicsMithrandir24601https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/81622020-12-21T21:45:40Z2020-12-21T21:45:40Z<p>Quantum Computers are considered a more powerful type of computer than so called 'classical' computers. While a typical classical computer could be considered as a black box that can solve <a hr...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/216225"Life post-Singularity", or "How to survive without Instagram"Babika Babakahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/31712016-01-07T18:07:23Z2020-06-29T14:38:02Z<h2>The Story</h2>
<p>The year is 2027, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity">singularity</a> happened. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_inte...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/213383How could a bad random number generator explain baryon asymmetry?Konrad Höffnerhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/16262015-08-07T20:08:43Z2020-06-03T01:33:15Z<p>How can a character explain baryon asymmetry (there is more matter than antimatter) by the universe being a simulation with a slightly imbalanced random number generator being employed at the po...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263542How could the display technology of self-rewriting books work?Mephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842020-05-31T00:55:06Z2020-05-31T01:35:24Z<p>Oh yes, it's <em>Artifact Time!</em> with Best Dad and Ozen the Immovable!</p>
<p>If you watched <em>Hairy Plotter and the Gas Chamber of Secrets</em>, you probably remember the scene where the...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262875How could two AIs "battle" within a closed off computer?Alexhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447182020-05-05T01:30:14Z2020-05-05T14:12:24Z<p>This is not so much for a story as much as something I've been thinking about for a while.</p>
<p>I'm really drawn to the idea of a sort of world that exists on a server somewhere. </p>
<p>The...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262575How much brain power per KG/volume?Demiganhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/421092020-04-23T13:00:30Z2020-04-25T19:18:48Z<p>When writing a futuristic story I always try to minimise the impact of computerization. Its rather uncomfortable writig a story when technology is advanced enough that humans arent in a position...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/262389Finding ways to robots feel pleasureGuilherme Vogthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/447962020-04-18T02:36:41Z2020-04-18T03:09:29Z<p>Given a world where a human-like brain is synthetizable, I wonder:</p>
<p>A human-like artificial brain would most likely crave sensorial overwhelm. Pleasure to humans is something deeply assoc...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/259063Would Mind Uploaded People on Fast Computers have any Unique Skills or Knowledge?ZestyNesquikhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/444112020-01-02T16:19:53Z2020-02-28T19:24:10Z<p>In my setting, there are basically no biological life forms left, as everyone has either been mind-uploaded or is an artificial intelligence. It is supposed to take place at a very distant poin...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/260079Way to prove you are human when the Turing test is not sufficientCharlie Hershbergerhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/438142020-02-03T00:31:36Z2020-02-07T12:01:26Z<p>In a story I am working on there are 5 AI on a space station of varying levels of social, image recognition and general intelligence. At least one is good enough to pass a Turing test and do ima...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/260182How would a Grey Goo robot compute given that it has no fixed form?Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12020-02-05T16:02:03Z2020-02-06T15:52:28Z<p>This is something that confuses me with amorphous characters, monsters, robots etc... How do they compute when their particles don't have a fixed form? They are in a sense modular robots only ta...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/258962Would a biological interface be of any use in a computer?Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12019-12-30T19:41:13Z2019-12-31T21:02:06Z<p><strong>Would a computer using biological components as an interface be any good? Would that protect it against hacking? Or provide more complex processing?</strong> </p>
<p>The way I'm going w...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273968The cure for all bacteria-caused diseasesJ. Doehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/297152019-12-04T12:42:54Z2019-12-05T10:40:41Z<p>Which minimal order of magnitude is required to simulate single cells and microorganisms in cyberspace?</p>
<p>In an utopian future, people will be possibly able to rapidly design new cures, be...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/257968what are some ways to store information mechanically?meaninglessnamehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/439162019-11-24T07:28:27Z2019-11-25T11:25:37Z<p>what are some ways to store largish amounts of information mechanically? What would a mechanical computer use for memory storage if it was entirely mechanical?</p>
<p>edit: guys why is this dow...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/257912What's the deciding factor in what my Foresight can predict?Mephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842019-11-21T19:12:24Z2019-11-21T23:02:39Z<p>When you have <a href="https://5thsrd.org/spellcasting/spells/foresight/" rel="noreferrer">foresight</a>, it's guaranteed that confusion will be your epitaph (thumbs up to the one person who get...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/225384A supercomputer around the sunPatJhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/386932016-11-19T04:49:06Z2019-11-18T22:52:35Z<p>I wish to build a sort of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dyson swarm</a> around the sun. Not to transmit energy, but to put supercompu...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/257809How could this three-second foresight work?Mephistopheleshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/35842019-11-18T17:27:42Z2019-11-18T19:13:52Z<blockquote>
<p>"However, King Crimson has already seen through it. Your movements in the future. The trajectory of your movements in the future."</p>
<p>"No matter who you may be, everyone ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/256247Is It Possible for a Universally-Executable Virus to be Written in Binary?overlord - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78782019-09-23T21:07:17Z2019-11-10T15:18:59Z<p>In my world, there was a man that wrote a virus in binary code - which in turn infects every computer-based system in the world, as long as it is connected to the internet.</p>
<p><strong>Is th...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/256632What Technology is Needed to Virtually Simulate...Everything?overlord - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78782019-10-08T16:48:20Z2019-11-06T19:38:04Z<p><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/15516/computer-resources-needed-to-simulate-our-universe">This is not my question.</a></p>
<p>In my story, I have a machine that you c...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/256531Is It Possible to Make a Computer Virus That Acts as an Anti-virus?overlord - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78782019-10-02T15:40:59Z2019-10-09T20:05:08Z<p>After receiving answers to <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/156814/is-it-possible-for-a-universally-executable-virus-to-be-written-in-binary">this question</a>, I now k...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/255793How to create Matrix-like simulation?michael smithhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/437212019-09-09T04:55:34Z2019-09-10T03:10:46Z<p>Movies like <em>The Matrix</em> and video games like <em>The
Evil Within</em> have popularized the idea of a simulated reality.
I'm talking about a human connected to a computer and able to exp...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/217044How viable would an analog computing revolution be?a1901514https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/384922016-02-06T19:00:48Z2019-06-04T21:17:34Z<p>I am trying to write a sci-fi setting in a not so distant future in which analog signal (brainwaves, in this case) processing is one of the main points of the plot and pretty much required to ex...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/252128Minimum tech level to invent core memoryrwallacehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/375222019-04-17T23:19:00Z2019-04-18T00:32:19Z<p>Magnetic core memory was a critical innovation in the development of computers. Per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/236846Why would technology dictate graphical interfaces to be rare on spaceships?dot_Sp0Thttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/68762017-11-12T09:23:02Z2019-04-11T22:10:37Z<p>This question differs from <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/63496/how-could-i-have-modern-computers-without-guis">that question</a> in that the other question is asking...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/251593How small can a perpetual energy source be to run a far-future civilization indefinitely?parasouphttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/436812019-03-30T04:41:10Z2019-03-30T14:32:32Z<p>You are the leader of a far-future civilization - human or otherwise - that has endured for trillions of years doing whatever far-future civilizations do. You've surrounded stars with Matrioshka...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/212977What would a society without cryptography look like?Ephasmehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/377262015-07-16T12:54:29Z2019-03-18T20:08:14Z<p>In this world you have access to computers powerful enough to decipher messages as long as the method used to encrypt it has at least one theoretical weakness (those computers cannot defeat an i...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/249618Would Moore's Law apply to mechanical computers?Columbia says Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/53522019-01-20T13:08:45Z2019-02-26T13:00:05Z<p>We know through the works of Babbage, Lovelace, et al. that mechanical computers (computers operating through gears, cogs, etc., and powered by steam or some other arbitrary non-electric power s...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273198How in a post nuclear apocalypse setting could a group of survivors set up a "Internet" or "Internet-like" service?The Blue Turbanhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/528502018-07-19T18:14:01Z2019-02-24T05:41:47Z<p>In a world set many years (At least a generation or two) after a near extinction level nuclear event, how could a recovering population set up a internet or internet like service?</p>
<p>Key po...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/249816What is a realistic computational limit for a handtool-made mechanic computer?fgysin reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/171622019-01-24T08:32:35Z2019-01-24T13:55:56Z<p><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/137160/would-moores-law-apply-to-mechanical-computers">This question here</a> brought up interesting points on what kind of distributio...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/247989What size EMP device would be necessary to wipe all data in a Google-sized server farm, without major physical damage?John S.https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/431562018-11-27T14:17:34Z2018-12-10T23:30:14Z<p>I'm not sure if it's even feasible, but I have a server farm in my book, of a size that puts it on par with Google's. I want to wipe out all the data stored on the hard drives, without destroyi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/207175If our universe was a simulation, what could a bug look like?Sheraffhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/364262014-10-26T13:32:11Z2018-10-16T16:06:49Z<p>Let's assume, without revoking any of today's science, that the world is a simulation.</p>
<p>What would a bug look like?</p>
<p>I'm assuming that "the eiffel tower suddenly being bent at 45°...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/213345Building computer hardware on the Moon or MarsSnowhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/376252015-08-04T21:05:19Z2018-08-25T10:38:56Z<p>My story setting's group of AIs and brain-uploaded humans wants to colonize space. They have an advantage over us, meat humans, because they don't need conventional life support (air, water, sew...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/244185Write once perpetual storage, is such a thing possible?Ashhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/26322018-07-30T10:55:47Z2018-07-31T17:31:44Z<p>Is it possible, with modern, or easily foreseeable technology, to build a compact digital data storage device that cannot be erased without removing the data store? The storage in question to be...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/207182Could knowing the state of the universe at time T allow to predict the state T+1?Sheraffhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/364262014-10-26T18:47:27Z2018-07-26T14:11:15Z<p>Quantum physics today tells us that we may not predict outcomes with certainty. We perceive events as random.</p>
<p>So is this old philosophical fantasy of an all knowing computer possible? Me...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/209088Building and powering a computer in a bronze age worldAndyD273https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/530102015-01-26T18:02:01Z2018-07-08T09:46:22Z<p>A character needs to build a computer out of raw materials in a bronze age.<br>
He has a nano scale factory, so manufacturing chips and such from silicon is possible, but I'm not sure of the bes...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/211894What planetary conditions would make computer and complex electronics useless, or at least difficult to maintain?Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12015-05-20T11:11:28Z2018-06-28T11:21:42Z<p>What planetary conditions would have to exist to make computers and other complex electronics useless or at least difficult to maintain?</p>
<p>Would ionised atmospheric conditions, constant so...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/209347How powerful of a computer do I need to simulate and emulate a human brain?Serban Tanasahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/368462015-02-08T19:36:48Z2018-06-02T10:17:49Z<p>The title is pretty self-explanatory. <strong>How powerful does a computer have to be before it has the hardware capability to simulate and emulate a human mind in real-time?</strong> </p>
<p>I...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/242288How can I make a Venusian computer?Anoplexian - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/59172018-05-29T16:30:09Z2018-05-29T17:30:07Z<p>In my story, the humans of Earth have finally made the trek to Venus, and have discovered a previously unknown life form on Venus. On closer inspection of the mucus creatures, they seem to have ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/228763Quantum Based AI getting around Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"Jethrohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/59472017-02-21T20:40:22Z2018-05-20T07:21:17Z<p>I am building a story where there is a rogue AI. However, that AI was under the governance of <strong>Isaac Asimov's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics" rel="noreferre...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/241594Dangerous pending task in world managing A.IEchoxhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/423482018-05-03T09:52:08Z2018-05-09T12:50:58Z<p>I've had this idea for a short novel, at the intersection of the <em>One thousand and one nights</em> and the Multivac (& co) short stories from Asimov.</p>
<p>The idea is that there's some kin...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/214721How would a city of AI be built?DaaaahWhooshhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/274102015-10-12T15:39:40Z2018-05-01T14:51:13Z<p>Someone has created an AI of human-level intelligence, and within hours this AI has grown in intelligence and power to the point that human life no longer seems so sacred. In an instant, all lif...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/240668SF: Brain-computer interface based on fungal hyphal sheaths: does this sound stupid?yannicushttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/406442018-04-03T15:14:26Z2018-04-06T21:33:57Z<p>Premise: bio-tech golden age where "wetware" is the new IT meta, organic AI that can interface with our standard computing technology. </p>
<p>In this context, I'm imagining a future technology...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/240011Does my shipboard computer slow down as I approach light speed?JBHhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/29562018-03-08T23:32:28Z2018-03-11T17:14:20Z<p><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/106506/time-dilation-difference-of-two-spacecraft-at-different-relativistic-speeds-if">This question about time dilation</a> got me thi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/207410How would an aquatic race develop computers?Liathhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/25442014-11-06T16:04:46Z2018-02-14T18:36:41Z<p>Following on from <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3714/how-would-an-aquatic-civilisation-forge-tools">this question</a> and assuming the race in question had developed...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/238600How would computer monitors work if we could sense the frequency of light?PyRulezhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/374292018-01-18T08:13:32Z2018-01-19T00:02:26Z<p>Human's abilities to perceive light is quite limited. Essentially, we have three type of light sensors that each give a linear signal, and if two different light sources give the same signals th...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/236837How can I enforce the use of CRT monitors?Wolfie_Wafflehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/408132017-11-12T04:34:20Z2017-11-13T11:59:00Z<p><strong>For reference:</strong></p>
<p>I am thinking of a story where travel between worlds exists, but people have to "start over" on each world. So they can't just take their current computer...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/234888In a VR-MMORPG, how might the game's publishers be able to maintain life-like NPCs?koorudokoohiihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/414342017-09-15T21:35:44Z2017-09-16T08:21:42Z<p>Taking something like the anime Log Horizon as an example, where NPCs (non-player characters) are essentially humans, but in a game (let's wave our hands and say that the tech is available for m...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/232434Technology that steals memoriesJanThttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/408002017-06-28T16:10:50Z2017-06-29T16:34:24Z<p>There is a device in my story that »steals« memories from a person (I had some sort of transmitter in mind, but this can easily be modified, as long as it uses powerful long-range signals to a...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/220778How much memory is needed to record a human thought?Trismegistushttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/31492016-07-11T02:37:36Z2017-06-19T23:17:13Z<p>Mind-Machine interfacing is fairly common across the width and breadth of sci-fi, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy">Science-fantasy</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/231918How physically small can human intelligence get?Snowshardhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/48902017-06-11T05:35:21Z2017-06-12T04:04:30Z<p>A common trope in science fiction is the idea that a human's consciousness and intelligence can be downloaded onto a computer. I recently had the idea that maybe in some apocalyptic scenario, m...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/207601Minimum computational power for ad hoc navigating the solar systemChris Camachohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/367662014-11-16T22:48:32Z2017-03-20T13:25:43Z<p>Imagine a world (or rather a solar system) where in its history there has been a war with emergent AI's</p>
<p>There are very strict laws governing the speed and complexity of computer systems<...