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AMA | March 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Entropy Is Increasing, but Knowledge Is Not Increasing.

There are limitations on what such computations can do, like the halting problem. I mean, it's the ad infinitum that worries me there. The other thing that i'm not quite sure about is you say, a, entropies increasing, but knowledge and complexity seem to be increasing in lock step. That i just think not true. Am, if i take a book and i burn it, enthropy is increased, but knowledge is not increased. Information, good old accessible information, or complexity has not increased in any way.

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