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by Comevius 1791 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth

Even with a constant entropy production rate there would be nowhere to run eventually. The Universe is a closed system.

So you would always want to be thermodynamically efficient, which appears to also produce lifelike behavior. "Any system built to have nonzero memory has to be predictive to operate at maximal energetic efficiency."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3271