Jason Jorjani

But when you think of it as a bunch of ones and zeros, sequences of ones and zeros, when you think of it inside of a physical system,

the blank magnetic tape or the blank microchip has more order in it than when you start to record ones and zeros on it right that's more chaotic yes zero zero one one one zero zero so rolf landauer was saying if we erase the data we're increasing uh i'm sorry if we erase the data we're decreasing entropy inside the computer

the blank magnetic tape or the blank microchip has more order in it than when you start to record ones and zeros on it right that's more chaotic yes zero zero one one one zero zero so rolf landauer was saying if we erase the data we're increasing uh i'm sorry if we erase the data we're decreasing entropy inside the computer

the blank magnetic tape or the blank microchip has more order in it than when you start to record ones and zeros on it right that's more chaotic yes zero zero one one one zero zero so rolf landauer was saying if we erase the data we're increasing uh i'm sorry if we erase the data we're decreasing entropy inside the computer

Now, according to the laws of thermodynamics, if you decrease entropy inside, somewhere inside a closed system, meaning the universe, you have to pay for it with an increase of entropy outside the computer. So you're decreasing entropy inside the computer. By deleting shit. By deleting shit.

Now, according to the laws of thermodynamics, if you decrease entropy inside, somewhere inside a closed system, meaning the universe, you have to pay for it with an increase of entropy outside the computer. So you're decreasing entropy inside the computer. By deleting shit. By deleting shit.

Now, according to the laws of thermodynamics, if you decrease entropy inside, somewhere inside a closed system, meaning the universe, you have to pay for it with an increase of entropy outside the computer. So you're decreasing entropy inside the computer. By deleting shit. By deleting shit.

That's got to result in more entropy outside the computer. Okay. Because the net energy has to remain the same.

That's got to result in more entropy outside the computer. Okay. Because the net energy has to remain the same.

That's got to result in more entropy outside the computer. Okay. Because the net energy has to remain the same.

so he came up with an equation that expresses this where if you delete one bit of information certain amount of energy is released got it okay now here's where it's going to get weird and creepy okay but that was all necessary background so we we think that information is this abstract thing we think we think it's like not physical right that's in the realm of ideas yeah but what this equation is saying is the following

so he came up with an equation that expresses this where if you delete one bit of information certain amount of energy is released got it okay now here's where it's going to get weird and creepy okay but that was all necessary background so we we think that information is this abstract thing we think we think it's like not physical right that's in the realm of ideas yeah but what this equation is saying is the following

so he came up with an equation that expresses this where if you delete one bit of information certain amount of energy is released got it okay now here's where it's going to get weird and creepy okay but that was all necessary background so we we think that information is this abstract thing we think we think it's like not physical right that's in the realm of ideas yeah but what this equation is saying is the following

That if you amass enough data, like on these huge server farms that we have in Silicon Valley, that we have in China, right? And you're amassing not bytes or megabytes, not terabytes, petabytes, whatever, right? Of data, and you erase all that data, you're going to have to give off a shit ton of energy. That's what Landauer's equation is saying.

That if you amass enough data, like on these huge server farms that we have in Silicon Valley, that we have in China, right? And you're amassing not bytes or megabytes, not terabytes, petabytes, whatever, right? Of data, and you erase all that data, you're going to have to give off a shit ton of energy. That's what Landauer's equation is saying.

That if you amass enough data, like on these huge server farms that we have in Silicon Valley, that we have in China, right? And you're amassing not bytes or megabytes, not terabytes, petabytes, whatever, right? Of data, and you erase all that data, you're going to have to give off a shit ton of energy. That's what Landauer's equation is saying.

is that if you erase a large amount of data, terabytes of data, there's a significant measurable energy release that's going to take place. Now, according to E equals MC squared, right? The interconvertibility of matter and energy. Yeah. What does that mean, conversely? It means that if energy comes out of the computer when the data is released, terabytes and terabytes on some server, right? Yeah.

is that if you erase a large amount of data, terabytes of data, there's a significant measurable energy release that's going to take place. Now, according to E equals MC squared, right? The interconvertibility of matter and energy. Yeah. What does that mean, conversely? It means that if energy comes out of the computer when the data is released, terabytes and terabytes on some server, right? Yeah.

is that if you erase a large amount of data, terabytes of data, there's a significant measurable energy release that's going to take place. Now, according to E equals MC squared, right? The interconvertibility of matter and energy. Yeah. What does that mean, conversely? It means that if energy comes out of the computer when the data is released, terabytes and terabytes on some server, right? Yeah.

What was it when it was inside the computer? Mass, right? It was mass. So it's been proposed that we could weigh a hard drive before data is encoded on it, and then again after data is encoded on it. Or take a hard drive that has data encoded on it, weigh it, erase the data, and then weigh it again. Right. There will be a mass differential. Right.