(I thank Dmitry Vaintrob for the idea of encrypted batteries. Thanks to Adam Scholl for the alignment angle. Thanks to the Computational Mechanics at the receent compMech conference. )
There are no Atoms in the Void just Bits in the Description. Given the right string a Maxwell Demon transducer can extract energy from a heatbath.
Imagine a pseudorandom heatbath + nano-Demon. It looks like a heatbath from the outside but secretly there is a private key string that when fed to the nano-Demon allows it to extra lots of energy from the heatbath.
P.S. Beyond the current ken of humanity lies a generalized concept of free energy that describes the generic potential ability or power of an agent to achieve goals. Money, the golden calf of Baal is one of its many avatars. Could there be ways to encrypt generalized free energy batteries to constraint the user to only see this power for good? It would be like money that could be only spent on good things.
Imagine a pseudorandom heatbath + nano-Demon. It looks like a heatbath from the outside but secretly there is a private key string that when fed to the nano-Demon allows it to extra lots of energy from the heatbath.
What would a ‘pseudorandom heatbath’ look like? I would expect most objects to quickly depart from any sort of private key or PRNG. Would this be something like… a reversible computer which shuffles around a large number of blank bits in a complicated pseudo-random order every timestep*, exposing a fraction of them to external access? so a daemon with the key/PRNG seed can write to the blank bits with approaching 100% efficiency (rendering it useful for another reversible computer doing some actual work) but anyone else can’t do better than 50-50 (without breaking the PRNG/crypto) and that preserves the blank bit count and is no gain?
* As I understand reversible computing, you can have a reversible computer which does that for free: if this is something like a very large period loop blindly shuffling its bits, it need erase/write no bits (because it’s just looping through the same states forever, akin to a time crystal), and so can be computed indefinitely at arbitrarily low energy cost. So any external computer which syncs up to it can also sync at zero cost, and just treat the exposed unused bits as if they were its own, thereby saving power.
Yeah I’m pretty sure you would need to violate heisenberg uncertainty in order to make this and then you’d have to keep it in a 0 kelvin cleanroom forever.
A practical locked battery with tamperproofing would mostly just look like a battery.
Encrypted Batteries
(I thank Dmitry Vaintrob for the idea of encrypted batteries. Thanks to Adam Scholl for the alignment angle. Thanks to the Computational Mechanics at the receent compMech conference. )
There are no Atoms in the Void just Bits in the Description. Given the right string a Maxwell Demon transducer can extract energy from a heatbath.
Imagine a pseudorandom heatbath + nano-Demon. It looks like a heatbath from the outside but secretly there is a private key string that when fed to the nano-Demon allows it to extra lots of energy from the heatbath.
P.S. Beyond the current ken of humanity lies a generalized concept of free energy that describes the generic potential ability or power of an agent to achieve goals. Money, the golden calf of Baal is one of its many avatars. Could there be ways to encrypt generalized free energy batteries to constraint the user to only see this power for good? It would be like money that could be only spent on good things.
What would a ‘pseudorandom heatbath’ look like? I would expect most objects to quickly depart from any sort of private key or PRNG. Would this be something like… a reversible computer which shuffles around a large number of blank bits in a complicated pseudo-random order every timestep*, exposing a fraction of them to external access? so a daemon with the key/PRNG seed can write to the blank bits with approaching 100% efficiency (rendering it useful for another reversible computer doing some actual work) but anyone else can’t do better than 50-50 (without breaking the PRNG/crypto) and that preserves the blank bit count and is no gain?
* As I understand reversible computing, you can have a reversible computer which does that for free: if this is something like a very large period loop blindly shuffling its bits, it need erase/write no bits (because it’s just looping through the same states forever, akin to a time crystal), and so can be computed indefinitely at arbitrarily low energy cost. So any external computer which syncs up to it can also sync at zero cost, and just treat the exposed unused bits as if they were its own, thereby saving power.
That is my understanding, yes.
Yeah I’m pretty sure you would need to violate heisenberg uncertainty in order to make this and then you’d have to keep it in a 0 kelvin cleanroom forever.
A practical locked battery with tamperproofing would mostly just look like a battery.