New Interpretation of Moore’s Law—Completed Through Dialogue with GPT (Plus a Brief Historical Interlude)
Warning:
Please read up to Section 0.5 without the aid of GPT or any AI system. This is intentional.
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Section 0: Prologue
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“If shortening a process by just one second brings the future closer—
how many of those seconds have you already thrown away?”
Your PC boots faster.
That’s all.
But that’s enough.
Enough for humanity to “reach the future” slightly earlier.
Why?
Let me explain.
• Old tech: HDD → 60 seconds to boot (simplified for clarity)
• New tech: SSD → 20 seconds to boot (again, simplified)
• Δ = 40 seconds saved per boot
Assume 100 million cognitively active users globally.
Each saves 40 seconds per day.
That’s 100,000,000 × 40 sec = 4,000,000,000 seconds/day
≈ 127 years of time shifted forward, per day.
Avoid shutdown.
Use sleep mode.
Return in 1 second.
You now experience the future 59 seconds faster than on an HDD.
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“Speed is folded time.”
This is the true fuel behind accelerated civilization.
And yet, no one noticed.
Civilization silently compressed the time to experience.
And it crashed forward into the future.
That is the hidden nature of Moore’s Law.
But why has Moore’s Law seemed to weaken?
That… will become clear as you read on.
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Section 0.5: A Warning (or Rather, a Request)
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