Thanks for the good links. I think we generally have become so accustomed to the scaled up von Neumann strategy that we don´t see how much efficiency and performance we leave on the table by not building much smaller memory hierarchies.

Shameless plug here, where I explore possible gains in efficiency, performance and security by scaling out rather than up; (no subscription) https://anderscj.substack.com/p/liberal-democracies-needs-a-...

That's really neat, I hadn't seen the black hole argument before, that's really cute