Physical laws operate on individual particles or large numbers of them. This limits agents by allowing to give bounds on what is physically possible, e.g., growth no more than lightspeed and being subject to thermodynamics—in the limit. It doesn’t tell what happens dynamically in medium scales. And because agentic systems operate mostly in very dynamic medium scale regimes, I think asking for physics is not really helping.
I like to think that there is a systematic theory of all possible inventions. A theory that explores ways in which entropy is “directed”, such as in a Stirling machine or when energy is “stored”. Agents can steer local increase of entropy.
Physical laws operate on individual particles or large numbers of them. This limits agents by allowing to give bounds on what is physically possible, e.g., growth no more than lightspeed and being subject to thermodynamics—in the limit. It doesn’t tell what happens dynamically in medium scales. And because agentic systems operate mostly in very dynamic medium scale regimes, I think asking for physics is not really helping.
I like to think that there is a systematic theory of all possible inventions. A theory that explores ways in which entropy is “directed”, such as in a Stirling machine or when energy is “stored”. Agents can steer local increase of entropy.