Self-Amplifying Intelligence for Entropy Regulation and Ascension. A physics-based research program asking what advanced intelligence must look like under the laws of thermodynamics, and what observable traces it leaves in the universe.
Intelligence is not an exception to physics. It is a thermodynamic process. Any system that captures energy efficiently, maintains internal order, and processes information at scale must obey the same laws governing heat, entropy, and computation. The Landauer principle, the Bekenstein bound, and Lloyd's computational limit set hard ceilings that no advanced intelligence (biological, artificial, or post-biological) can exceed.
SAIERA asks the natural follow-up question. If those limits apply, what observable signatures would any sufficiently advanced intelligence leave behind. The framework derives them from first principles and points to where to look.