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2026-07-17 13:13 UTC

@shonin@c.im Probably someone does. Not me though. 🤷 Sounds like a physics thing. Seems unlikely anyone in Burnham's team is spending much time thinking about it, whatever it is.

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@shonin@c.im 2026-07-17 16:43

@pre@boing.world It's an observation in the physics of entropy that the math there is consistent with the math in Shannon information entropy. Living things are active to maintain and reproduce themselves. They're predisposed to find heaps of easily available energy in preference to less available energy, and in consuming these heaps, convert them to less available energy, eventually courting extinction through a polluted and exhausted ecological niche. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy This suggests that continuing to bang on the North Sea oil, among other such things, is not going to end well. Unfortunately, the principle predicts that we cannot help ourselves. Wish we would try, though.

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