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David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication

COMPLEXITY

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Is There a Benefit to Running Lower Than Channel Capacity?

Carlos Gershensson is a visiting scholar on sabbatical. He mentioned a 2015 paper he did with Dirk Helbing, when slower is faster. In the example systems that they give in this paper, there's a lot of overlap with the kind of example systems you give in the intro to yours. And so that in closing, I would love to hear you speak to this question of speed and intentionally slowing down or if not this, what do you think the light from this paper shines on questions about creating more thermodynamically efficient computers?

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