alt Hacker NewsIt'd be super fun to take that as an axiom of physics then to see how far upwards one could build from that. Above my skills by far.
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UltraSane • today at 1:44 AM
The minimum amount of energy needed to compute decreased asymptotically to 0 as the temperature of space goes to 0. This is the reason a common sci-fi trope where advanced civilizations hibernate for extremely long times so that they can do more computation with available energy.
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it's called the first law of thermodynamics