A thought provoking leading question I have is (1) a space heater throws power into a coil and generates heat and nothing more in the world (2) an LLM into a GPU throws power into the GPU and generates heat and organized information.
Is (2) generating less heat so that the laws of thermodynamics account for the increased amount of "useful stuff" generated (the organized information)? Switch (2) for a bitcoin miner if you prefer.
Is the act of increasing order in the data, somehow costing some energy? Is there a fundamental minimum cost to flipping bits? Something about the switch of energy to matter and back, seems involved here.
I think the nature of computation is holding some secrets about the meaning of the universe, if there is any.
Is (2) generating less heat so that the laws of thermodynamics account for the increased amount of "useful stuff" generated (the organized information)? Switch (2) for a bitcoin miner if you prefer.
Is the act of increasing order in the data, somehow costing some energy? Is there a fundamental minimum cost to flipping bits? Something about the switch of energy to matter and back, seems involved here.
I think the nature of computation is holding some secrets about the meaning of the universe, if there is any.