I shall attempt to guess the teacher’s passidea: “the real problem” is that the AI can’t perform any computation, because that would consume energy and emit heat. Oh, and gravity and electromagnetic waves, and so on. In fact, not computing is equally well a choice which affects things outside the box.
I shall attempt to guess the teacher’s passidea: “the real problem” is that the AI can’t perform any computation, because that would consume energy and emit heat. Oh, and gravity and electromagnetic waves, and so on. In fact, not computing is equally well a choice which affects things outside the box.
Yup. To be exact, “affect” is a magical category relative to the irrevocably entangled actual universe.
Edit: Looks like I actually wrote this one up, in Dreams of Friendliness.