Periodic reminder: Whether it’s a physical or sociological process, fission is much easier than fusion, and Humpty Dumpty is often a one-one operation.
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Replying to @generativist
thinking a lot about what lossy operations have in common, like is there a unifying abstraction for "losing information" and if so is it just calculus? Is "heat" the subjective experience of physical systems losing information?
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Statistical mechanics provides endlessly useful analgoies.
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@KrauthWerner can tell you much more, and he already prerecorded it!https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics …
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