timtyler comments on What I've learned from Less Wrong - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Louie 20 November 2010 12:47PM

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Comment author: timtyler 22 November 2010 06:34:37PM 1 point [-]

It seems relevant to the comment that "if memory is reversible, it's not memory". Reversible computers have reversible memory.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 22 November 2010 07:33:48PM 0 points [-]

Reversible computer designs people actually consider building do a small bit of irreversible computation copying end results of the reversible computations into irreversible memory before rolling back the reversible computation. Perfectly reversible computations are a bit useless since they erase their results when they start rolling backwards.

Comment author: wnoise 22 November 2010 08:01:30PM 0 points [-]

You can erase some of their results without erasing others, of course.

Comment author: timtyler 22 November 2010 07:41:30PM *  0 points [-]

Nobody says you have to run a reversible computer backwards.

A big part of the point is to digitise heat sinks and power management. For details about that, see here.