Civilization is mostly energy, not information. I suspect all the architectural and engineering design docs for even the biggest cities would fit into like a few petabytes or so. But the energy required to turn pristine land into say New York City is probably humongous.
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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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Energy is the only hard, objective cost: all else is (subjective) demand
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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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