And gzip would turn that into a few terabytes
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I was thinking a few petabytes after compression. CAD files are pretty big though they’re vector. Not sure why. Would be interesting to actually estimate this.
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Hm, but information is bound to energy. Without information energy is a chaos of destruction, without energy information is a dead aperiodic crystal.
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Yeah yeah you know what I mean *waves hands vaguely*
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One way to look at it: Information is design, energy is operations. Feedback between the two (i.e. design constantly learning from operations) is evolution.
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you been reading some Vaclav Smil?
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Definitely. I’ve found the below presentation insightful (French with English subtitles). Jancovici is presenting an extensive argument how every product and service we trade ultimately depends on energy transformations.https://youtu.be/pggA6_9aW5c
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Du.. NYC is made of stories, not atoms or kilocalories. Big Civ can't exist without a preponderous history and/or mythos
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A New York taxi costs more in information (driver) then it does in energy (fuel). Though maybe the metals in the car embody quite a lot of energy as well. Info too.
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