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Consider the Kardashav scale about the energy requirements for various civilizations: planetary, stellar, and galactic. These energy scales are effectively a proxy for the computational complexity of that civilization, and correspondingly, their economic and financial systems.
Just wild to imagine how simple bartering-based economic systems relative to today’s globalized, information-based (look at cryptocurrencies, effectively pure information), and highly complex economic and financial systems, and what will come in the future in terms of computational complexity in financial models.
What I find particularly fascinating is the arrival on the scene of cryptocurrencies, which now provide an even more intimate relation between economic wealth and computation, and by extension, fundamental aspects of nature since computation does not exist as an abstraction, but is highly tied to physical processes in physical systems.
With respect to physics, imagine having to factor in the effects of special and general relativity for pricing models arbitrage opportunities in a post-biological civilization? Or the effects of quantum mechanics for encrypted communications in quantum information science and engineering? Or harnessing the power of non-local influences for smart contracts? (Quantum mechanics, nonlocal influences, and quantum…
