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JesseAldridge on June 1, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: What we talk about when we talk about singularity

Constraints have a way of crumbling in the face of ingenuity.

DaniFong on June 1, 2008 [–]

Some do, yes.

But I'll play my bets and say that NP-Hard will stay hard, the speed of light won't be broken, and at a certain point you need to switch to reversible computation because of landauer entropy, which will set space constraints of it's own.

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