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Is Maxwell's Demon applicable to this scenario? I'm not a physicist but I recently had to look it up after talking with someone and thought it had to do with a specific thermodynamic thought experiment with gas particles and heat differences. Is there is another application I don't understand with computing power?

>>Herodo+(OP)
You’re absolutely right that I used a sloppy analogy there.

It’s Boltzmann and Szilard that did the original “kT” stuff around underlying thermodynamics governing energy dissipation in these scenarios, and Rolf Landaeur (I think that’s how you spell it) who did the really interesting work on how to apply that thermo work to lower-bounds on energy-expenditure in a given computation.

I said Maxwell’s Demon because it’s the best known example of a deep connection between useful work and computation. But it was sloppy.

>>benree+N
OK thanks I figured there was a connection between computational power and thermodynamics when you get to a small enough scale but I wasn't sure how to apply it!