[livcomp]

I can understand the outsider art take.. I'm exploring a style of computing that undercuts so many deeply-embedded design assumptions (e.g., CPU, RAM, deterministic execution) that it's a big lift even for people who really want to get it.

It's a bit outdated, but FWIW https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article/22/4/431/2851/The-ulam-P... is reasonably coherent and approachable, I think..

[svnt]

This is brilliant, and needed.

Do you see opportunity in quantum computing given the more direct access to indeterminate state?

[livcomp]

I'm a quantum skeptic when it comes to delivering supraclassical power in full systems at scale, and I expect biochemical computing machines will be likely useful sooner. But yeah, if quantum can one day deliver 'nearly locally deterministic' cycles in volume, I want to have an architecture that can use them.