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Comment by hackinthebochs a day ago

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Maxwell's demon thought experiment implies they are the same concept. Given a complete knowledge of every particle of gas you can in principle create unphysical low entropy distributions of the particles. This[1] goes into more detail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_...

bavell 21 hours ago

A fun visual explanation: https://youtu.be/8Uilw9t-syQ?si=D9sR2YAm40SPFG3a

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