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Comment by rafaelmn

7 hours ago

Entropy makes sure that you can't scale systems into infinite completely.

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Schiendelman  5 hours ago

We have thought that a few times with earlier technologies - a smaller chip requires less local reduction of entropy than a room sized computer. This may keep going for a long time yet.

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