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A comment on Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961) [pdf].

Re:Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Proc... by messe on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:02PM (#23643589)
An interesting paper in somewhat the opposite direction, but still building on Landauer's work is "Ultimate physical limits to computation":

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043

The end of the abstract:

> [...] quantitative bounds are put to the computational power of an `ultimate laptop' with a mass of one kilogram confined to a volume of one liter.

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Re:Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Proc... by scottlocklin on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:42PM (#23644684)
That along with "on the computational capacity of the universe" was the paper that stopped me from ever taking Seth Loyd seriously again. Later finding out he was a creepy Epstein croney... well sometimes the universe makes a lot of sense.
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