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qarl2yesterday at 11:07 PM0 repliesview on HN

> We wouldn't accept such behavior from any other tool, machine, or computer program.

Von Neumann, 1952: "Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components." The whole result is that you get an arbitrarily reliable machine out of unreliable parts by adding more unreliable parts and voting. Every ECC memory and RAID array descends from it.