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by tysam_and 1249 days ago
Same, but I would honestly rather we get away from silicon or anything resembling what we call these "computers" these days. Things are too complicated and we need to truly get back to the basics: rocks on a hill.
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Abacus-driven deep learning with trained monkeys flipping gradients.
Outside tools are not required.

We'll selectively breed humans until one can just compute it in...meat[0].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

in mitro computing
You don't need to flip gradients, just need to train the monkeys to operate matchboxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
Reminds of that part in the Three-Body Problem novel where the emperor of the videogame builds a CPU with soldiers as bits