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    $\begingroup$ Maybe not a perfect fit but could not help but equate the question with the book "Mote in Gods Eye" They have the Alderson Drive ( mavericuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Alderson_drive ) And and alien race called Moties. (Spoilers) An alien race, separated into casts of Idiot Savants. While they do presumably have computers, they make little use of them and no need to develop better ones because it's simply easier to breed more of the Motie cast you need. $\endgroup$
    – Gillgamesh
    Commented Apr 23 at 19:19
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    $\begingroup$ Building computers out of human flesh might not go down well here on Earth. $\endgroup$
    – Jon Custer
    Commented Apr 23 at 21:29
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    $\begingroup$ They have no cats on their home planet, so there was no drive to develop computers powerful enough to stream videos about them. For basic automation of devices, 1980's tech level is enough. $\endgroup$
    – vsz
    Commented Apr 24 at 4:30
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    $\begingroup$ “The problem comes down to solving the EFEs for some complex metrics and with other constraints, which a modern human laptop can do in at most a few second ” This simply false solving the EFEs for a relatively simple dynamical system ( like a merging BH binary) takes days to weeks on modern computing clusters. $\endgroup$
    – TimRias
    Commented Apr 24 at 6:47
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    $\begingroup$ They did develop powerful computers, but as they gave control to the computers to manage their economy, the computers started to optimize them out. So they pulled the plug and made it illegal to build anyt computer more intelligent than them. $\endgroup$
    – Florian F
    Commented Apr 24 at 17:31