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#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

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X86 Is the Worst Architecture on the Planet

There's something about simplicity that us in this evolutionary process is valued. It could be simple as good, but too simple as bad. Right now, X86 is proprietary with Intel and AMD, but they can change it anyway they want independently. ARM is proprietary to ARM, and they won't let anybody else change it. And risk five is open source, so anybody can change it, which is super cool. But that also might mean it gets changed in too many random ways that there's no common subset of it people can use.

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