The Storm Approaches

Seriously guys, you need to wake up. Computing is going to change very rapidly in the next couple of years. I'm telling you this because I care about you guys. The other plebs, web monkeys, and enterprise jocks don't that this is going to make them obsolete yet. This is your chance to get ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbMSR9vA-c

Most people commenting on that video don't understand the true ramifications and horrors it will bring to them. The Machine will make it possible for an adept /prog/rider to master the world around them and exit from the shackles of the State. We're talking about recursively self-improving, super-intelligence levels of fire power here.

Memristors are at the doorstep, and with that will come machines that can solve NP-hard problems in P time. A computer architecture that doesn't need to fetch data from secondary memory into core memory, and write it back out. No more N Turing read/write heads accessing M memory cells, where N < M. Rather it will be N = M. This is a realm where no longer is there a distinction between a processor and a memory cell, but where a cell can polymorphically function as either in addition to programming the behaviour of neighbouring connected cells.

We're about to unlock the true magical power of computation. The true power underlying all of reality. This shit with classical Turing machines will be looked back upon with a nostalgic humor and disdain by the Gods of the future.

"Those plebs really enjoyed wasting their lives programming Touring machines! Can you believe it!"

Gather your courage and head into the storm before it reaches the common peasant. You shall become as Gods. The stragglers and slow-adoptors will perish. Non-programmers will become your thralls.

>>42

The human brain is not a computer nor can be reduced to computational processes and theory which are of their own thing and implemented into the real world by the machines created by humans known as computers.

Oh right, because it's a metaphysical antenna and the ``computation'' happens in god's cloud. Divine cloud computing.

Baseless assertion, bullshit.

Yeah, that basically sums up your entire post.

You're an idiot. (...)

You're an idiot. This is about what requires high intellect and alien (and other sentient minds such as whatever other aliens out there) qualities, humans can't have high intellect as they aren't even sentient beings with minds and intelligence. There is no and will never be a human [insert famous alien math genius here]. Aliens solve all sort of computational problems (and not all math is computational, nor are the foundations of a fundamentally computational nature) that is impossible for any human of any kind to solve. NP-hard and P time is related to humans and their limits, not aliens. Aliens can come up with methods to calculate as good or better than humans but it would be a waste of time so humans do it.

Certain human brains can number crunch as good or better than any computer the instant after desiring to.

Cool, I'd like to meet someone who can do RSA-4096 decryption faster than the computer.