we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory
the computers up in space on the apollo missions were not sufficiently capable to get to the moon, they relied on both some hand done math by the astronauts as well as getting updated and corrected with more accurate information from earth based communications which themselves relied on a network of massive supercomputers by the day’s standards, spread across the earth in order to seek minimal delay times to the satellite networks that would help relay communications back and forth. and on top of that all of those big computers were connected to hundreds of smaller machines for monitoring and processing additional needs.
collectively there were gigabytes of active primary data and instruction memory across all these machines, necessary to the completion of the missions. to say nothing of the intermediate stages between what was used for primary ram in those days and straight up “permanent” disk storage.
anyway if your damn chrome tabs were only exchanging thrust and location values and rocket burn time calculations like the moon mission stuff was it wouldn’t be having any trouble at all from mere ram size lol.
The bees and wasps now recognise me as the person who gives them water. Which sounds cool but it means everytime I go outside they harass me until I fill up the waterer. On the bright side, I no longer have to fear wasps as they just buzz around me non-threateningly now.
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