Complexity and Accountability: A (Non-Environmental) Case for Rationing Computation

The same illustration has also been published in Plutonics . Check them out. Every computer can do anything that any computer can do . They are uniquely general-purpose tools. This makes them pretty nifty because we don't need to make one machine to look at cat pictures and another to calculate asteroid trajectories, but this lack of constraint comes at a cost. For a simple demonstration of this…