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by zozbot234 1267 days ago
I think there might be fundamental tradeoffs at play. An information processing system acting in a cold local environment will have the ability to do far more complex computations with more reliability (thus, in a way, be much more likely to exhibit complex internal behavior) but will also be limited in how much work it can perform onto the outside, thus how much it can recognizably output from the computation. While the opposite will be true at higher temperatures.