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Such limits are derived from our current understanding, of which one would have probably given a completely different answers 150 years ago based on our underst

Such limits are derived from our current understanding, of which one would have probably given a completely different answers 150 years ago based on our understanding then. >Breaking both in any major way would require or beget actual teleportation. (Which unlike electricity or moving in atmosphere has not been seen in nature.) Well maybe we haven't seen them because we didn't know how to look… recently declassified FLIR from US navy reporting archives suggest things that we haven't typically seen in nature in the past, can be seen. >There does exist a series of absolute limits on Earth, such as capacity for growing food limited on sunlight, water and availability of specific minerals. True, but what is the purpose of any of these things, and do we currently pursue the most efficient ways of doing such for those ends in a way that we cannot think about it anymore?

AstralStorm 7y ago
Correct, the are multiple ways to extend each of the limits, even one based on food, however mathematical limits on complexity exist and are really hard to surpass. On the upside, we're really far from them. Smart matter is not quite in our grasp. Once we figured out information-theoretic entropy we got tools to set bottom limits on everything. I'm not entirely sure when, but Kolmogorov was quite some time ago. The math is in good company of Shannon and Fischer. Remember that reducing costs by not doing something has risks. Existential risks in fact. (E.g. reliance on a single source of energy without fallback.)
- cinquemb 7y ago
  Kolmogorov was about 90 years ago. Shannon, similar. Neither of their accomplishments will limit future accomplishments and understanding (except those bound slavishly to such frameworks [as good as they may be today in certain applications]) >Existential risks in fact. (E.g. reliance on a single source of energy without fallback.) Existential risks for oil companies investors or CSP investors?
  - fallingfrog 7y ago
    Now, not to be rude but if you think we are going to break the laws of thermodynamics or other physics then you literally believe in supernatural forces. As in magic.
    - cinquemb 7y ago
      If you think meta materials violate laws of thermodynamics, impossible to exist "naturally" in the universe and our understanding of the physical laws that govern the universe are static throughout time, then I have a bridge to sell you.

AstralStorm 7y ago

Correct, the are multiple ways to extend each of the limits, even one based on food, however mathematical limits on complexity exist and are really hard to surpass. On the upside, we're really far from them. Smart matter is not quite in our grasp. Once we figured out information-theoretic entropy we got tools to set bottom limits on everything. I'm not entirely sure when, but Kolmogorov was quite some time ago. The math is in good company of Shannon and Fischer. Remember that reducing costs by not doing something has risks. Existential risks in fact. (E.g. reliance on a single source of energy without fallback.)

cinquemb 7y ago
Kolmogorov was about 90 years ago. Shannon, similar. Neither of their accomplishments will limit future accomplishments and understanding (except those bound slavishly to such frameworks [as good as they may be today in certain applications]) >Existential risks in fact. (E.g. reliance on a single source of energy without fallback.) Existential risks for oil companies investors or CSP investors?
- fallingfrog 7y ago
  Now, not to be rude but if you think we are going to break the laws of thermodynamics or other physics then you literally believe in supernatural forces. As in magic.
  - cinquemb 7y ago
    If you think meta materials violate laws of thermodynamics, impossible to exist "naturally" in the universe and our understanding of the physical laws that govern the universe are static throughout time, then I have a bridge to sell you.