There's a lot of science fiction which touches on this --- notable things: - Heinlein's _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ which has already been mentioned - Harr

There's a lot of science fiction which touches on this --- notable things: - Heinlein's _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ which has already been mentioned - Harry Harrison's _The Turing Option_ (with forward by Marvin Minsky): https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1807642 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1807642 - Victor Milán's _The Cybernetic Samurai_ which is notable for a major character in it has the afore-mentioned Heinlein as a favorite book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/472944 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/472944 Biology is _incredibly_ efficient in terms of energy usage --- it's rather striking to me that the a single query of early iterations of ChatGPT were so demanding that Microsoft was able to put a price on them and monetize them so as to get their stake in the company.