Tag
maxwell
- EssayThe Missing $Quadrillion
Identifies a second economic channel that every major AI-impact forecast (Goldman, McKinsey, PwC) has missed: the bond-bit asymmetry. Channel A asks what happens when AI substitutes for cognitive labor; Channel B asks what happens when information substitutes for physical manipulation across the entire material economy. The second channel is roughly twice the size of the first and reframes the path to a $1-quadrillion economy.
- EssayThe Thermodynamics of Artificial Intelligence: A First-Principles Analysis of the Maxwellian Demon Hypothesis
Asks whether AI agents operating via feedback loops—RL agents, autonomous control systems—function as Maxwell's demons in a first-principles physical sense, and reconciles their internal computational thermodynamic costs with the work they extract from stochastic environments. Traverses the Sagawa–Ueda equality, SGD energetics, and recent experimental realizations of autonomous demons in solid-state and quantum systems.
- EssayJed's Angel: Maxwell's Demon Reborn, Guarding Nature with Information
A deeper technical follow-up to the May 2025 'Environmental Angel: Maxwell's Demon Evolved' essay. Examines the thermodynamic trade-offs inherent in a planetary-scale 'Angel,' the inviolability of the Second Law, and the irreducible informational costs of its operation.
- EssayThe Environmental Angel: Information, Entropy, and the Thermodynamic Limits of Ecological Control
Adapts Maxwell's demon—the 19th-century thought experiment of an information-driven agent that locally reduces entropy—into a rigorous proposal for an 'Environmental Angel': an information-driven entity that controls environmental entropy to protect natural systems. Establishes the conceptual character that subsequent essays continue to develop into 'Jed's Angel' and Environmental Superintelligence.