How are computers and similar machines so fucking ‘inhumanly’ accurate?
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A brain is an analog system designed to deal with the analog world, it’s imprecise, but it can do a lot of things very fast with a “good-enough” degree of accuracy. This system is great for when you need to make very rapid movements in a life and death fight with a bear. It’s a lot less useful when you’re trying to do mathematical equations where there is one exact right answer and you need to be 100% correct 100% of the time.
Computers are the opposite. They’re very rigid, only able to do certain tasks, but they do them with pinpoint accuracy every single time. The reason they can do that is because at the core of a computer, everything is hard-wired in a certain logical way. So if you think of a human brain, you might think of electrical signals flying every which way, causing all kinds of spontaneous connections of different strengths. In a computer, an electrical input of a certain kind will ALWAYS and ONLY produce a certain output.
It’s a logic thing, A goes to B goes to C. B can never be skipped, A will ALWAYS go to B and B will ALWAYS go to C, because it’s a chain reaction built in wire and silicon. So as long as there are no manufacturing faults, and as long as the software is providing the correct inputs, the outputs cannot be wrong.
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