?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Lurching+Toward+Chernobyl%3A+Dysfunctions+of+Real-Time+Computation&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=Cognitive+biological+structures%2C+social+organizations%2C+and+computing+machines+operating+in+real+time+are+subject+to+Rate+Distortion+Theorem+constraints+driven+by+the+homology+between+information+source+uncertainty+and+free+energy+density.+This+exposes+the+unitary+structure%2Fenvironment+system+to+a+relentless+entropic+torrent+compounded+by+sudden+large+deviations+causing+increased+distortion+between+intent+and+impact%2C+particularly+as+demands+escalate.+The+phase+transitions+characteristic+of+information+phenomena+suggest+that%2C+rather+than+graceful+decay+under+increasing+load%2C+these+structures+will+undergo+punctuated+degradation+akin+to+spontaneous+symmetry+breaking+in+physical+systems.+Rate+distortion+problems%2C+that+also+affect+internal+structural+dynamics%2C+can+become+synergistic+with+limitations+equivalent+to+the+inattentional+blindness+of+natural+cognitive+process.+These+mechanisms%2C+and+their+interactions%2C+are+unlikely+to+scale+well%2C+so+that%2C+depending+on+architecture%2C+enlarging+the+structure+or+its+duties+may+lead+to+a+crossover+point+at+which+added+resources+must+be+almost+entirely+devoted+to+ensuring+system+stability+--+a+form+of+allometric+scaling+familiar+from+biological+examples.++This+suggests+a+critical+need+to+tune+architecture+to+problem+type+and+system+demand.+A+real-time+computational+structure+and+its+environment+are+a+unitary+phenomenon%2C+and+environments+are+usually+idiosyncratic.+Thus+the+resulting+path+dependence+in+the+development+of+pathology+could+often+require+an+individualized+approach+to+remediation+more+akin+to+an+arduous+psychiatric+intervention+than+to+the+traditional+engineering+or+medical+quick+fix.+Failure+to+recognize+the+depth+of+these+problems+seems+likely+to+produce+a+relentless+chain+of+the+Chernobyl-like+failures+that+are+necessary%2C+bot+often+insufficient%2C+for+remediation+under+our+system.&rft.date=2008-11-19&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6276%2F1%2Frdcomp17.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2008)+Lurching+Toward+Chernobyl%3A+Dysfunctions+of+Real-Time+Computation.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6276%2F