On Eating the Sun — LessWrong

The Sun is the most nutritious thing that's reasonably close. It's only 8 light-minutes away, yet contains the vast majority of mass within 4 light-y…

x On Eating the Sun — LessWrong World Modeling AI Frontpage 96 On Eating the Sun by jessicata 8th Jan 2025 Linkpost for unstablerontology.substack.com 4 min read 99 96 The Sun is the most nutritious thing that's reasonably close. It's only 8 light-minutes away, yet contains the vast majority of mass within 4 light-years of the Earth. The next-nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.25 light-years away. By "nutritious", I mean it has a lot of what's needed for making computers: mass-energy. In "Ultimate physical limits to computation" , Seth Lloyd imagines an "ultimate laptop" which is the t

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