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virgo_eye
1944 days ago
No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat.
If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.
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medstrom
1944 days ago
Just turning chaos into order takes thermodynamic work, but I was wildly off with my percentages. Thinking in terms of an idealized computer that doesn't create heat, but didn't realize how far we were from that.
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