I strongly disapprove of your attitude in this thread. You haven’t provided any convincing explanation of what’s wrong with Jacob’s model beyond saying “it’s unphysical”.
I agree that the model is very suspicious and in some sense doesn’t look like it should work, but at the same time, I think there’s obviously more to the agreement between his numbers and the numbers in the literature than you’re giving credit for. Your claim that there’s no fundamental bound on information transmission that relies on resistive materials of the form energy/bit/length (where the length scale could depend on the material in ways Jacob has already discussed) is unsupported and doesn’t seem like it rests on any serious analysis.
You can’t blame Jacob for not engaging with your arguments because you haven’t made any arguments. You’ve just said that his model is unphysical, which I agree with and presumably he would also agree with to some extent. However, by itself, that’s not enough to show that there is no bound on information transmission which roughly has the form Jacob is talking about, and perhaps for reasons that are not too dissimilar from the ones he’s conjectured.
I strongly disapprove of your attitude in this thread. You haven’t provided any convincing explanation of what’s wrong with Jacob’s model beyond saying “it’s unphysical”.
I agree that the model is very suspicious and in some sense doesn’t look like it should work, but at the same time, I think there’s obviously more to the agreement between his numbers and the numbers in the literature than you’re giving credit for. Your claim that there’s no fundamental bound on information transmission that relies on resistive materials of the form energy/bit/length (where the length scale could depend on the material in ways Jacob has already discussed) is unsupported and doesn’t seem like it rests on any serious analysis.
You can’t blame Jacob for not engaging with your arguments because you haven’t made any arguments. You’ve just said that his model is unphysical, which I agree with and presumably he would also agree with to some extent. However, by itself, that’s not enough to show that there is no bound on information transmission which roughly has the form Jacob is talking about, and perhaps for reasons that are not too dissimilar from the ones he’s conjectured.