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#29 - Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Firmo Dynamic Cost of Compiling

It has to do with the firmo dynamic cost of doing computation. This is something even the most perfect computer can't avoid. You basically need to pay a cost proportioned to the number of bits of information you erase in your computition times for temperature. So somewhere there's going to be a bit wasted coming out o your computer. And this is obviously true for a current computer, because we run robber war. But if you're really sophistice can start talking about quantum computers and reversible computing that can get around wis in a subter way.

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