Sure, but you then can't access the computronium, because communication is so bad.
Who says all the computronium has to stay far away? Just move it all closer together as you build it.
Second, you can spend much of it running parallel tasks that don’t need to synchronize or communicate often. You could run quadrillions of humans instead of enlarging yourself to fill all of that new computronium.
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Who says all the computronium has to stay far away? Just move it all closer together as you build it.
Second, you can spend much of it running parallel tasks that don’t need to synchronize or communicate often. You could run quadrillions of humans instead of enlarging yourself to fill all of that new computronium.
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