AI is failing because of Energy gatekeeping

Landauer's Principle

Landauer's principle says that the minimum energy needed to erase one bit of information is proportional to the temperature at which the system is operating. While it specifically mentions information erasure, this is not different from information writing as a bit flip from 1 to 0 is an erasure of 1 but a writing of 0, and vice versa.

Bottom line: information = energy.

But energy was never free.

Even if there is a term in Physics called Gibbs free energy, what you have is "usable energy" and this energy requires some investment of time, skills and effort to acquire. That is, money.

Energy on earth is actually plentiful. The only problem is that we have gatekeepers called governments, so most people have to beg for energy the way ancient peasants had to beg their clan leader for a piece of mammoth meat. As if the...

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