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This kind of reminds me of this comment (moveable feast engine): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877155

DonHopkins 7y ago
David Ackley's talks are amazing and mind expanding. Public Lecture: Artificial Life for Bigger & Safer Computing Talk presented October 8, 2014 as part of the John von Neumann Public Lecture series at the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation (C4) in Madison, Wisconsin. Video recorded by Alan Ruby of the Wisconsin Insitute for Discovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSnoJ-VGH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSnoJ-VGH4 He stakes out a bold iconoclastic position that the ridiculously successful deterministic approach to computing is a dead end that will not scale, but he's not just like Clifford Stoll predicting that nobody's going to ever shop over the internet (bless his heart for owning up to that ;), because he's taking a much longer term view, and his beliefs don't contradict von Neumann, but actually reflect what von Neumann predicted. John von Neumann actually predicted that his own approach was going to fall down. The future "...logic of automata will differ from the present system of formal logic in two relevant respects: 1. The actual length ... of the chains of operations will have to be considered. 2. The operations of logic ... will all have to be treated by procedures which allow exceptions (malfunctions) with low but non-zero probabilities." "...natural organisms are constructed to make errors as ... harmless as possible. Artificial automata are designed to make errors as ... disastrous as possible ... We are ... much more 'scared' by the occurrence of an isolated error and by the malfunction ... behind it. Our behavior is clearly that of overcaution, generated by ignorance." -John von Neumann, 1948

DonHopkins 7y ago

David Ackley's talks are amazing and mind expanding. Public Lecture: Artificial Life for Bigger & Safer Computing Talk presented October 8, 2014 as part of the John von Neumann Public Lecture series at the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation (C4) in Madison, Wisconsin. Video recorded by Alan Ruby of the Wisconsin Insitute for Discovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSnoJ-VGH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSnoJ-VGH4 He stakes out a bold iconoclastic position that the ridiculously successful deterministic approach to computing is a dead end that will not scale, but he's not just like Clifford Stoll predicting that nobody's going to ever shop over the internet (bless his heart for owning up to that ;), because he's taking a much longer term view, and his beliefs don't contradict von Neumann, but actually reflect what von Neumann predicted. John von Neumann actually predicted that his own approach was going to fall down. The future "...logic of automata will differ from the present system of formal logic in two relevant respects: 1. The actual length ... of the chains of operations will have to be considered. 2. The operations of logic ... will all have to be treated by procedures which allow exceptions (malfunctions) with low but non-zero probabilities." "...natural organisms are constructed to make errors as ... harmless as possible. Artificial automata are designed to make errors as ... disastrous as possible ... We are ... much more 'scared' by the occurrence of an isolated error and by the malfunction ... behind it. Our behavior is clearly that of overcaution, generated by ignorance." -John von Neumann, 1948