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Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by dr_dshiv on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:59AM (#31721361)
Computation does take energy and precisely modeling the sun would take a lot of it. Makes me wonder: would precisely computing the physics of something hot produce more heat than computing something cold?
Re:Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient by scarmig on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:47AM (#31727185)
Higher temperature systems tend to have more microstates than lower temperature ones, so it seems like in principle you need less information to encode the state of a cold system than a hot system. I'm not sure how to translate that to the energy cost of computation of that system though.