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it is amazing how all computers do could be done in paper, but not as fast

which means that computer technology since the 70s is really just "faster paper", faster by more then a single order of magnitue... but ultimately paper-equivalent to this day

maybe LLMs, once their computational characteristics are better understood, will finally move computing beyond paper so fast it can write on itself over 2,000,000,000 times per second

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computer technology since the 70s is really just "faster paper"

Huh... "paper" is just storage, the whole point of "computer technology" is to have a tool to do computation not just storage. So no, computers are not just faster paper.

it's paper that can write into itself

‘universal control mechanism for other machines’ is not something you can do with faster paper and that’s the job of a gigantic pile of computers.

Isn't it? The universal control mechanism for other machines used to be punchcards.

a mechanical mechanism which isn’t and wasn’t particularly universal and where the use of paper is incidental and often limiting. the point is that just making computation faster (what gp was talking about) is not why computers are everywhere.

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