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Because the universe didn’t come with documentation.
Why is reality often described as “information-limited” in physics?
Because of the Bekenstein bound, which sets a hard limit on how much information can exist inside any region of space. Even the entire observable universe, at maximum density, could store its information in a volume smaller than a sugar cube—showing information, not matter, is the true bottleneck.
Can AI actually discover new mathematics on its own?
Yes. In 2019, Google DeepMind trained an AI that found new, faster matrix-multiplication algorithms—outperforming methods humans had refined for over 50 years—without being taught any math rules explicitly.
How powerful is a modern smartphone compared to early space-age computers?
A single smartphone today is millions of times more powerful than the computers used by NASA during the Apollo Moon missions, which operated with less RAM than a digital watch.
Why aren’t quantum computers just “faster computers”?
Because their advantage comes from interference, not speed: incorrect solutions mathematically cancel out while the correct one amplifies. This behavior has no classical equivalent and is why quantum algorithms can beat classical ones so dramatically.