The thing with hardware limits is that you can keep on building more computers, even if they’re slow, and create massive parallel processors. We know that they can at the very least achieve the status of the human brain. Not to mention that they can optimize the process for building them, possibly many different designs including biological inspired ones that can, with a large enough energy source, consume organic material (FYI, the earth is made of organic material—rocks) and grow at exponential rates. As the system grows exponentially larger it would channel resources it couldn’t use for use in other purposes (for example, it could make silicon based computers as well or maybe start producing vehicles to colonize other parts of the solar system.) The problem with this system is that even if it’s friendly, it means the irreversable destruction of the earth unless we make a point to preserve the earth and all life on it, maybe the rest of the solar system as well.
Most rocks are inorganic but a substantial fraction are organic. Limestone and dolomite are common examples. Still, your basic point is correct. Certainly the majority of rocks are inorganic which is more than enough to make your point pretty clear. The post you were responding to is unambiguously very wrong.
The thing with hardware limits is that you can keep on building more computers, even if they’re slow, and create massive parallel processors. We know that they can at the very least achieve the status of the human brain. Not to mention that they can optimize the process for building them, possibly many different designs including biological inspired ones that can, with a large enough energy source, consume organic material (FYI, the earth is made of organic material—rocks) and grow at exponential rates. As the system grows exponentially larger it would channel resources it couldn’t use for use in other purposes (for example, it could make silicon based computers as well or maybe start producing vehicles to colonize other parts of the solar system.) The problem with this system is that even if it’s friendly, it means the irreversable destruction of the earth unless we make a point to preserve the earth and all life on it, maybe the rest of the solar system as well.
Rocks are INorganic.
Most rocks are inorganic but a substantial fraction are organic. Limestone and dolomite are common examples. Still, your basic point is correct. Certainly the majority of rocks are inorganic which is more than enough to make your point pretty clear. The post you were responding to is unambiguously very wrong.