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I’m guessing here but it seems to me the idea is that each atom can hold a finite amount of information and information storage requires energy. An economy req
by syops 5y ago
I’m guessing here but it seems to me the idea is that each atom can hold a finite amount of information and information storage requires energy. An economy requires information and storage of information (not necessarily permanently for each transaction). So it seems to me that the ‘economy’ is limited in size by being proportional to the number of atoms we’ll be able to have access to.
- loeg 5y agoThere are about 48 million atoms per 18 grams of water.
- lordnacho 5y agoSurely an underestimate? Avogadro's number is something like 6x10e23 IIRC.
- sigio 5y agoMajor underestimate, it's more like 1.8 * 10^24 or, if you prefer, 1.8 million billion billion.... See: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=atoms+in+a+18+grams+of+water https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=atoms+in+a+18+grams+of...
- loeg 5y agoYeah, sorry, I screwed up. 10^23 != 2^23... We're not running short of atoms.