What you’re describing is not really different in principle from using specialized hardware like GPUs for rendering polygons instead of running everything on the same general CPUs. There are ASICs for hashing (used for Bitcoin mining), FGPAs (real-time signal processing, I think), and of course, TPUs for AI inference. And with cloud-computing, would you even know if your computation was actually being done with different physics than you thought?
What you’re describing is not really different in principle from using specialized hardware like GPUs for rendering polygons instead of running everything on the same general CPUs. There are ASICs for hashing (used for Bitcoin mining), FGPAs (real-time signal processing, I think), and of course, TPUs for AI inference. And with cloud-computing, would you even know if your computation was actually being done with different physics than you thought?
Yes, those are importantly different and do in fact add diversity. They are still made from transistors though.