MIT Paper: Universe Has Performed at Most 10^120 Operations

A widely reshared 2001 paper by MIT's Seth Lloyd estimates that the universe could have performed at most 10^120 operations on 10^90 bits, a figure often cited in debates over the physical limits of computation and AI scaling.

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• Classic MIT paper: the universe has performed at most 10^120 ops on 10^90 bits — burny_tech · 2026-10-21

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