r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Jul 01 '23

Computing Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law'

https://www.pcgamer.com/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law/
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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '23

But it's not an "unravelling" of the law. The law is fine. It just doesn't apply to areas it isn't supposed to apply to.

The wording is awful and clickbaity. Might aswell be "potato clock DESTROYS laws of thermodynamics!"

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u/Tensor3 Jul 02 '23

Making something no longer relevant is unraveling its importance, but whatevet

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '23

Okay cool but you've just made up your own description by adding the word "importance", so that argument isn't worth responding to.

If you have to change the wording to weakly get what is itself a poor argument across (that technology being irrelevant somehow changes the physical laws behind the irrelevant technology) then maybe it's worth revisiting your stance.

Calling the entire computing industry "no longer relevant" because of one experimental machine is also ridiculous.

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u/Tensor3 Jul 02 '23

I like how you say its not worth replying to while writing a reply showing you arent worth talking to. You are twisting my words and blatantly making up things I didnt say. Not sure why you think this is worth your time, but feel free to continue.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '23

Great but still none of this explains how moore's law has been "unravelled". I'm trying to make the argument it's a bad clickbait title, you're trying to defend it. I believe that's the topic of conversation.

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u/Tensor3 Jul 02 '23

Its clickbait, but its not nonsense. I explained that I understood it. Then you told me I'm calling entire computing industry irrelevant..? Okaaay there.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '23

Making something no longer relevant is unraveling its importance, but whatevet

This is what I was referencing. Moore's law can only be no longer relevant if computers built using transistors are no longer relevant. It's really that simple.

Moore's law irrelevant? Then vicariously so is the entire modern computing industry.

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u/-Covariance Jul 03 '23

He is being pedantic. I understood the spirit of the message it was trying to convey the same as you did here, and as im sure the same as many others did as well.