[RhysU]

It'd be super fun to take that as an axiom of physics then to see how far upwards one could build from that. Above my skills by far.

[UltraSane]

The minimum amount of energy needed to compute decreased asymptotically to 0 as the temperature of space goes to 0. This is the reason a common sci-fi trope where advanced civilizations hibernate for extremely long times so that they can do more computation with available energy.

[ctmnt]

That’s a common trope? Can’t say I’ve run into it. But I’d like to! What are some good examples?

[ruined]

it's called the first law of thermodynamics

[RhysU]

The first law involves cwork. The axiom I am thinking of involves information.