Beyond funding, thermodynamics is the real hard limit on AI progress
AryHHAry · x · 2026-10-25
The author argues that while people point to ever-more absurd funding levels as AI's biggest obstacle, the truly unavoidable constraint is the laws of thermodynamics — you can only work around it by optimizing infrastructure, never manipulate the physical limit itself.
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