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Infinite CPU capability does not automatically imply infinite storage, but it does imply that you can compress any storage to an information-theoretic minimum size, by writing a search for an arbitrary program to generate the same data.

And that's some absurdly good compression, given the universe simulator assumed in the story: anything that will ever occur as a state of the universe can be compressed to a set of space-time coordinates and an extraction algorithm.

With some additional assumptions about the nature of the pseudo-causal loop demonstrated in the story, that compression can also include any arbitrary search parameters you can conceive of, without you having to express them as a program: just search for the data that will be on your hard drive in the future after having executed the search you're currently thinking of.



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