Our current reliability based software paradigm lavishly squanders the determinism we so meticulously extract from physics. Conversely, our brain is a best-effort computer, and works whenever the substrate is sufficiently better than random.
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Would you comment more on squandering of determinism...?
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Our software relies on fully deterministic hardware, which means that we stack probabilistic physics until we achieve building blocks with almost perfect determinism. However, we could do the error correction in software to exactly the degree we need it, and use cheaper hardware.
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If we could accept that a transistor only works most of the time, not all of the time, we could fit many more transistors on a chip, and run it on a fraction of the energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle …
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