Excidium Planetis wrote:Vistora wrote:
Hehe, yeah, I know. Honestly, the utter lack of control drives me fucking bananas, though I have managed to wrestle Vistora in more or less the right direction thus far (though I have been trying for 100 economy for ages now, and I'm going insane over it).
Being a heartless capitalist who cuts taxes at every opportunity works.
Once you reach that part, avoid the tax code issue like the plague, and start being a bit nicer to poor people, fund education and the environment, etc.
Yep, that's more or less what I've been doing. I used to jump at the chance to implement laissez-faire policies, but considering that they often do NOT do one's economy well, I've had to be more careful. Also, I always increase education funding when I get the chance.
Given how fundamentally different the workings of computers and human intelligence are, that would not be plausible in any realistic setting like mine. The best you could hope for is creating an army of people genetically engineered to possess the traits of savants, though that just entails a bunch of people with calculative abilities far exceeding that of normal people, but still a minuscule fraction of computers.
A normal human brain outperforms personal computers in most ways, so a genetically engineered human would probably have modern tech computers beat if you did things right. I mean yeah, you aren't going to be beating supercomputers, but you're working with something smaller than a basketball here, not some large room with nitrogen cooling systems and stuff.
I know I know, it's just that humans and digital computers exceed in such vastly different regards that one cannot necessarily perform the role of the other. Computers have organic intelligence easily beat in terms of raw mathematical computation, yet cannot even approach our abilities of higher cognition.
