> The amount of both matter and labor per quantity of computing power is dropping exponentially. Right?
Right. The problem is the demand is increasing exponentially.
It’s not like when computers got 1000x more powerful we were able to get by with 1/1000x of them. Quite the opposite (or inverse, to be more precise).
Just to go back to my original point, I think drawing a comparison that physical systems compete for physical resources and implying information systems don’t is misleading at best. It’s especially obvious right now with all the competition for compute going on.
All information has a substrate at any given time.
But the amount of computation per resource drops because computation is not something tied to any unit matter. Nor any particular substrate.
It is not the same as a steam engine, which can only be made so efficient.
The amount of both matter and labor per quantity of computing power is dropping exponentially. Right?
See a sibling reply on the physical limits of computation. We are several singularities away from any hard limit.
Evidence: History of industrialization vs. history of computing. Fundamental physics.