I think you missed my point about Darwin. Darwin was inspired by the geologic theory, gradualism, where small changes are summed up over long time periods. It was this outside theory applied to biology that helped him to shape his radical new theory.
Right now threads are the only game in town, and I think you're right. For existing hardware, there probably won't be any magic solution, at least no with some major tradeoff like performance hit you get with Erlang.
I was thinking about neuromorphic hardware when I mentioned neuroscience. From what I hear the software side there is more analogous to HDL.
Go is great stopgap for existing thread based HW. But if the goal is to achieve strong AI, we're going to need some outside inspiration. Possibility from a hierarchical memory system, a massively parallel one.
I wish I could offer less speculation, and more solid ideas. Hopefully someone here on HN will. I think that was the point of the video. To inspire.
Right now threads are the only game in town, and I think you're right. For existing hardware, there probably won't be any magic solution, at least no with some major tradeoff like performance hit you get with Erlang.
I was thinking about neuromorphic hardware when I mentioned neuroscience. From what I hear the software side there is more analogous to HDL.
Go is great stopgap for existing thread based HW. But if the goal is to achieve strong AI, we're going to need some outside inspiration. Possibility from a hierarchical memory system, a massively parallel one.
I wish I could offer less speculation, and more solid ideas. Hopefully someone here on HN will. I think that was the point of the video. To inspire.