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Interestingly but perhaps not surprisingly, Moore's Law extrapolated backwards in time would be vastly more expensive than this. We might get 10^14 more bits o
by reitzensteinm 5y ago
Interestingly but perhaps not surprisingly, Moore's Law extrapolated backwards in time would be vastly more expensive than this.
We might get 10^14 more bits out of something that costs 10^-7 as much today, but that's only 21 orders of magnitude out of a suggested 1200 or so.
The universe only has 10^50 tons of mass, so it's meaningless to even attempt to describe what would that cost would look like.
I'm personally saving up to buy a bit of storage when it only costs a thousand universes or so.
- cmeacham98 5y agoMoore's Law says nothing about "bits stored" or "cost" of storage, and it makes no sense to extrapolate it before the invention of integrated circuits.
- reitzensteinm 5y agoIt's actually quite interesting to extrapolate our current exponential trends before ICs as a thought experiment. Kurzweil semi famously uses it to push his arguments: https://www.kurzweilai.net/ask-ray-the-future-of-moores-law https://www.kurzweilai.net/ask-ray-the-future-of-moores-law I do know what Moore's Law literally says. I thought it was fairly obvious I was generalizing, but yes the text as written is incorrect. If you're not into the thought experiment, that's totally fine.