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V0ldek
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That's the closest you'll ever get to an admission from a corporate mouthpiece though.
as if it makes any difference whether the universe runs on (...) Microsoft Excel
Okay but it is very spiritually important for me to not be that, please.
Storing a message in a system doesn’t make new microstates. How could it?
Lol I got so tripped up by him later saying "this is no longer clearly 0 or 1 so it doesn't exist" and decreasing N that I missed he does the reverse thing when encoding the message.
This is like the ontological argument. He creates a virtual entity from words alone and then treats it as a physical thing storing energy. And then once it no longer fits the words of the definition, poof, gone it is, oh look, total entropy decreased.
We have to consider probabilities, not just for where the pieces are, but also for how they are moving.
I completely omit that because, well, it's hard, but also I don't think it's necessary here. This approach doesn't work even if you consider only positions and assume uniformly random momentum. It doesn't work even if the microstate is "is this pixel more red or more blue" in the paper's experiment!
But thank you for the comment, I'm glad I didn't completely butcher entropy with my weird nonrigorous internal model I developed based PBS Space Time videos lol
but you aren’t quite right about some of the details.
I'd be happy to be corrected.
This isn’t too outlandish, and modern studies of quantum mechanics suggest that information is a conserved quantity,
I hope I didn't pass it as if it was completely out there, that information has to have some physical properties and energy as a carrier is a very reasonable hypothesis. The Landauer principle is not that controversial, I'm sad I'm too stupid to actually understand the discussion around it on any reasonable level lol
Oh, it’s worse than “outlandish”. It’s nonsensical. He’s basically operating at a level of “there’s an E in this formula and an E in this other formula, so I will set them equal and declare it revolutionary new physics”.
I meant the experiment itself. Like it looks like something you could try and do and measure and get an actual answer?
This is probably the least surprising thing ever.
CocaCola is like the symbol of capitalism. Everything they produce is corporate slop. GenAI is a perfect fit -- soulless, artless, hastily slapped together bright pictures that ultimately don't matter and carry no value. The world is not better with CocaCola ads, and it would be no worse without them. They're just there, to be lost in time, forgotten. Like tears in the rain.
Radical thought, maybe read the article?
This is the only way you could make me care about the Simulation Hypothesis, if it runs on a spreadsheet then I will make it my life's mission to break out just to yell at them for being terrible at engineering and replace them with a small shell script