Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? by jds375 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:55PM (#18666043)

But it wasn't a human computer. It was a trisolarian computer made up of trisolarians that were alien beings that had the ability to do things like hyper-fast communication and always be truthful. Both of those traits could actually make for a viable computer system whereas humans obviously would not. I can see how you may have thought that though because in the 3 body problem simulation "game" in the book the trisolarians are represented as humans (the author does point out the difference though)

On a side note, is our system of government really all that different from a mass human computer?

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Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? by crimsonalucard on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:58PM (#18666073)

Yeah but why use binary? Why not communicate through language rather than binary?

Yes, our system of government is a mass human computer that would be made really inefficient if everyone could only communicate in binary and if we restricted one persons functional processing to output that of a single logical gate.

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Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? by jds375 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:03PM (#18666131)

That's definitely a good point; language would likely be much better than binary unless the aliens had some special capacity for binary (which I'm pretty sure was not the case)

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