Comment by antonvs

Comment by antonvs 6 months ago

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You’re glossing over an important point: your knowledge of the future state of the system is “heads or tails”.

One of the things entropy tells us how a system is likely to evolve in future. But looking at this another way, entropy actually helps dictate how it will evolve in future. And we can prove that mathematically.

ajkjk 6 months ago

What are you talking about?

Entropy doesn't tell us that at all. Entropy tells us how much data is encodes between two ways of describing a value. It has nothing to do with time at all.

  • antonvs 6 months ago

    You're confusing two different perspectives on entropy without understanding either properly. In physics, which is what's being discussed, entropy is certainly closely related to time.