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They don’t need blood but they need energy, planes don’t flap their wings but they need to generate lift. Whatever the function of sleep is, I think artificial
by sgillen 6y ago
They don’t need blood but they need energy, planes don’t flap their wings but they need to generate lift. Whatever the function of sleep is, I think artificial minds will likely need it too.
- Smaug123 6y agoWe have a handy analogy in the computing world, in that stop-the-world and concurrent garbage collection algorithms both exist. If sleep is pure garbage-collection, then I don't think there's any strong reason to expect it to be required of all possible mind designs. However, it seems increasingly likely that the empirical question may be answered at some point soon!