• NewsaHackO 2 hours ago

    Also, one should check out Tenet, it's a pretty authoritative resource about this as well.

    • ruthmarx 2 hours ago

      How so? That film is a narrative mess with some good action scenes an not much more.

      If you want to reference a relevant sci-fi, I'd say Asimov's The Last Question is a better fit.

    • xtrapol8 3 hours ago

      > entropy is just a fancy word for ‘number of possible arrangements’

      It isn’t though.

      Entropy is a fancy word for potential distribution over negative potential. Negative potential is the “surface area” over which potential may distribute. The “number of possible arrangements” casually fits into this, yet misses some unintuitive possibilities, like the resistive variance or other characteristics not preempted by who ever constructed the intellectual model.

      Idealists insist entropy is a scalar state resolve of delta probability in their model. They are self deceived. Entropy is the existential tendency for potential to distribute toward equilibrium.

      As long as boffins can throw away results that do not correlate, they can insist it is anything they like.

      • ninetyninenine 2 hours ago

        >Entropy is a fancy word for potential distribution over negative potential. Negative potential is the “surface area” over which potential may distribute.

        I don't understand this. Please elucidate.

        • IncreasePosts an hour ago

          Consider that if you Google for `"resistive variance" entropy`, the only hit is for the hn comment.

          It doesn't make sense because what they wrote makes no sense. Probably some looney with their own definition of entropy.

          • xtrapol8 14 minutes ago

            Please refer to the comment of this comment!