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Entropy Goes Up in Closed Systems, Right?
Entropy does go up, but entropy goes up in closed systems. We interact with the rest of the universe in very important ways. I don't think that human progress is doomed to shift disorder around. There's nothing fundamental about 10 beyond four fingers plus opposable thumbs being biomechanically successful and even spookier. Henry Jacobs says, lottery voting is an election system wherein a single voter is randomly selected and their vote decides the election. Here are some positives. Number one, it's a proportionate representation system. Number two, voters have more power than a plurality-based system. If you model the voters as biased coins, the mutual information between a voter and the election outcome dec