I like this fairytale as an analogy for AGI, but this article misses the point.
We are the mouse.
> I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI
Just like the mouse doesn't believe in the Gruffalo (until it shows up).
The mouse goes through the woods scaring the hypothetically-more-dangerous creatures with its stories (us, using our intellect, weapons, destroying habitats) until the real Gruffalo shows up.
For a bit, the mouse "uses" the new tool to scare the animals even more (as alluded, human with tool, scarier than without).
Eventually the mouse scares the Gruffalo away (analogous to the brief window when we think we have AGI under control).
The next (unwritten) chapter probably doesn't look so good for the mouse (when the gruffalo grows to enormous size, eats him and all the other animals in the woods on a sandwich, and sucks up the rest of the resources on the planet.)
The bandwidth requirements are very low - you can sync time over a 56kbps serial port if you like.
However, the big benefit of PTP is having your precise timing and your main network connection share a single wire - so if your server needs 10 Gbps for whatever the server does, to get the highest accuracy you'd want a PTP compatible switch with 10Gbps ports.
The bandwidth is low, but the latency requirements are stringent since PTP does a wire delay calculation with multiple back-and-forth messages. If that gets affected by, for instance, jumbo frames being on, your bound on the clock value is much worse than if you have a relatively uncongested link.
We are the mouse.
> I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI Just like the mouse doesn't believe in the Gruffalo (until it shows up).
The mouse goes through the woods scaring the hypothetically-more-dangerous creatures with its stories (us, using our intellect, weapons, destroying habitats) until the real Gruffalo shows up.
For a bit, the mouse "uses" the new tool to scare the animals even more (as alluded, human with tool, scarier than without).
Eventually the mouse scares the Gruffalo away (analogous to the brief window when we think we have AGI under control).
The next (unwritten) chapter probably doesn't look so good for the mouse (when the gruffalo grows to enormous size, eats him and all the other animals in the woods on a sandwich, and sucks up the rest of the resources on the planet.)