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Interesting. Do you have a source? How does it compare to other tech, like nails? Or cups? Shoes?
by hovden 3y ago
Interesting. Do you have a source?
How does it compare to other tech, like nails? Or cups? Shoes?
- Fatnino 3y agoLetters?
- smaddox 3y agoPaperclips?
- mecsred 3y ago10^23? Maybe if we push all the way to AGI.
- newswasboring 3y agoAn average paper clip is 204.8mm^3. 10^23 of those would be 2.048x10^19 L in volume[1]. That would be only two orders of magnitude less than total volume of oceans 1.33x10^21 L [2]. So I think not. [1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+a+paperclip+times+10%5E23 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+a+paperclip+t... [2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=total+volume+of+oceans https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=total+volume+of+oceans
- FoeNyx 3y agoIs that a reference to the "Universal Paperclips" game?
- smaddox 3y agoBasically, yes. Or at least it's related. The game is based on (arguably, a misinterpretation of) the writings of Elizer Yudkowski.
- bnegreve 3y agoBe careful with large numbers: 10^23 shoes would be roughly 854B shoes for every (~117B) human that have ever lived, that is about 14 million pairs of shoes per individual and per day. I am pretty sure there has never been a market for that many shoes.
- mattkevan 3y agoTruly the shoe event horizon. Next step: become birds.
- intrasight 3y agoIEEE https://spectrum.ieee.org/transistor-density https://spectrum.ieee.org/transistor-density Interpolate out and we're close to 10^23