Stephen Wolfram Joins The Life Boat Foundation and Bets On Singularity 214
kodiaktau writes "This week The Lifeboat Foundation announced that Stephen Wolfram would be joining its organization. The purpose of the group is to think through scientific solutions to existential problems that might be used to save humanity from such risks as asteroids hitting the earth or some other diabolical disaster. Wolfram brings computational science to the table and has posited that the earth and universe can be understood as a computer program that can be significantly altered as we continue to advance in technology."
Hilarious (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Understood as ...? (Score:5, Funny)
The 3-body problem is easy to solve computationally. It just has no closed-form solution.
Quantum mechanics certainly can be simulated at a low level, it's just too costly a simulation to use to simulate large-scale systems.
I knew this guy once... he told me the 3-body problem was that "someone is always left out".
Re:Understood as ...? (Score:4, Funny)
Mod parent up. One of the girls always gets mad.