They should name it after this guy, the Pitelka rock.

the transition ... to domination by our new AI overlords?

Can we stick one of these in something that looks and sounds like HAL 9000 ?

Hard to decide between Star Trek computer voice, Glados or Jarvis, HAL would also be cool.

with wireless tech, you can embody Ai in just about anything, waiting for that hacker post about turning their toaster into a thinking machine, I have a Anki vector I've been meaning to do this with (has camera, speakers, microphone, and screen built in)

And very creepy too. I loved it.

Keep looking!

People thought the invention of the telegraph was going to bring about world peace.

The thing we find out is: when we connect people it doesn’t mean they will get along. See Europeans and Native American Indians.

See Catholics and Protestant See Muslim and Jews

No form of communication would have stopped the racism, inabilities to see other cultures and work together

People suck. Connecting them doesn’t result in utopia

There’s a fair case to be made that it delivered on that, the thesis that increasing connectedness diminished violence over time

David F. Noble's "The Religion of Technology" is a quite good read to see how we arrived at this from monastic origins.

There are some points in the book that after reading became extremely obvious, like the belief that technology can (and will) overcome human limitations, restoring us to a perfect/divine state; that technological progress is the path to transcend physical and moral limits (all of which we see in the techno-optimism of the tech industry).

It's been around forever, we are just seeing a new dress up of it with the information age, the way tech "leaders" speak has been mocked to no end in Silicon Valley because of how insufferably close to religion all of this is...

Lucky Strike thought putting a smooth and refined cigarette in everyones hand was going to bring about world peace.

Yes, and it's worth pointing out these examples because they don't work as quantum memories. Two more: magnetic memory based on magnets which are magnetic because they are build from many tiny (atomic) magnets, all (mostly) in agreement. Optical storage is similar, much like parent's example of a signal being slowly sent over a wire.

So the next question is why doesn't this work for quantum information? And this is a really great question which gets at the heart of quantum versus classical. Classical information is just so fantastically easy to duplicate that normally we don't even notice this, it's just too obvious a fact... until we get to quantum.

Ternary computers have 8 tits to a byte.

Should be either 9 or 27 I'd think.

Why can’t it be 8?, the fact that it’s a trit doesn’t put any constraint on the byte (tryte ? size). You could actually make it 5 or 6 trits (~9.5 bits) for similar information density. The Setun used 6 trit addressable units.

This is likely the same as a distributive law of monads... https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/distributive+law on good days i might understand this stuff..

Another less high-brow connection: associativity of matrix multiplication relies on the usual distributivity law..

Yes: the requirement of commutativity in the "addition" for distributivity to work with a noncommutative "multiplication" is exactly why my current model for code* is based on an (anathema to practicing programmers) unordered choice.

* and also data; with suitable choices of definitions there are very few differences between the left and right hand arguments to application.

Can we add caffeine as a cause? It was introduced in england around 1650 and then a few decades of people getting high from that and voila, steam power!