I’m not so sure our anticipations necessarily differ. I think separate agents with amazingly fast communication will approach the performance of a unified mind, and a mind with poor internal communication will approach the performance of separate agents. Human minds arguably might have poor internal communication, but I’m still betting that it’s more than one order of magnitude better than what ants do. I think our disagreement is more about the scale of this difference than anything.
The fundamental barrier to communication inside a single mind is the speed of light; an electronic brain the size of a human one ought to be able to give its sub-agents information that’s pretty damn close to simultaneous.
At any rate, in this game we do have simultaneous knowledge, and there’s no reason to handicap ourselves by e.g., waiting for scouts to return to other ants to share their knowledge.
I’m not the one downvoting you, either.
I’m not so sure our anticipations necessarily differ. I think separate agents with amazingly fast communication will approach the performance of a unified mind, and a mind with poor internal communication will approach the performance of separate agents. Human minds arguably might have poor internal communication, but I’m still betting that it’s more than one order of magnitude better than what ants do. I think our disagreement is more about the scale of this difference than anything.
The fundamental barrier to communication inside a single mind is the speed of light; an electronic brain the size of a human one ought to be able to give its sub-agents information that’s pretty damn close to simultaneous.
At any rate, in this game we do have simultaneous knowledge, and there’s no reason to handicap ourselves by e.g., waiting for scouts to return to other ants to share their knowledge.