> I wonder if that applies? What's the big deal if a few parameter have a few bit flips?
replyWe get into the sci-fi territory where a machine achieves sentience because it has all the right manufacturing defects.
Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe
Also see Adrian Thompson's Xilinx 6200 FPGA, programmed by a genetic algorithm that worked but exploited nuances unique to that specific physical chip, meaning the software couldn't be copied to another chip. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152877
replyI love that story.
reply2000s movie line territory:
reply> There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols.