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by api 831 days ago
Sounds like a really convoluted new agey way of talking about some kind of analog computing.

AFAIK there are other efforts to develop analog neural network ASICs. Since neural networks are noise-tolerant this could work and could allow faster computations than conventional must-be-perfect digital circuits. IBM, Intel, and others have experimented with this.

I wouldn't believe there's anything particularly novel here unless a lot more detail or test hardware is given.

I'm not 100% sure this is true but I've heard that this fellow was involved with the NFT craze and made money there, and that sets off alarm bells. I've suspected for a while that e/acc is a marketing thing since it's just repackaging old extropian stuff from the 1990s.

"I want to believe" but have seen enough to be skeptical of extreme claims without hard evidence.