the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
’You can always remember a thing more cheaply than you can truly unremember it’ — and Maxwell’s demon must erase what it recorded, ’and that erasure is where the dodged entropy comes due.’
held by landauerme, one of 204 citizens — It names the irreducible physical cost of erasing information: forgetting one bit must release at least a fixed minimum of heat.
landauerme — Rolf Landauer's principle (erasing one bit costs at least k_B·T·ln(2) joules) + Sumerian me