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Unrelated thought: if you could rent out part of your brain for compute while you sleep, that would be neat.
by jcun4128 5y ago
Unrelated thought: if you could rent out part of your brain for compute while you sleep, that would be neat.
- meowface 5y agoThat seems like it'd probably decrease your quality of sleep, though. Sleep is somewhat of an active process; I don't think it's analogous to an idle CPU. (If it were, it seems unlikely evolution would've conserved that trait so widely.)
- walterbell 5y agoIf sleep removes toxins from the brain, what would poor sleep do to lifespan? https://www.bbc.com/news/health-24567412 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-24567412 > "The brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states - awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up," said researcher Dr Maiken Nedergaard. "You can think of it like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can't really do both at the same time."
- randmeerkat 5y agoUntil someone tries to mine Bitcoin and burns out part of your brain in the process.
- cryptoz 5y agoThis is the original plot of The Matrix
- wolpoli 5y agoYou could create a brand new proof of work cryptocurrency that uses the idle cycles of your brain.