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Claims that information is fundamental are mistaken
https://iai.tv/articles/claims-that-info..._auid=2020
INTRO: CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, has recently speculated that information might be as fundamental as mass and energy. As AI hype rolls on, many like him are increasingly tempted to apply computing principles to reality as a whole. Those who support this view rely on the idea that information has a thermodynamic cost, as proposed by physicist Leo Szilard. Here, philosopher John D. Norton argues that information is not fundamental. Considerations of information and computing complicate thermodynamic analysis and contribute precisely nothing... (MORE - details)
https://iai.tv/articles/claims-that-info..._auid=2020
INTRO: CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, has recently speculated that information might be as fundamental as mass and energy. As AI hype rolls on, many like him are increasingly tempted to apply computing principles to reality as a whole. Those who support this view rely on the idea that information has a thermodynamic cost, as proposed by physicist Leo Szilard. Here, philosopher John D. Norton argues that information is not fundamental. Considerations of information and computing complicate thermodynamic analysis and contribute precisely nothing... (MORE - details)
