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Why? They are arrogant. They take take pride in their arrogance. It is a trait that is beneficial at times and detrimental at others. This isn't a value judgement.
I calibrate more through acceptance then self deception - although both can work.
Thanks, that sounds like an interesting way to divert the conversation, one way or the other. It's probably not something that I will encounter in conversation again but as a historical-edit-counterfactual that seems like a good solution.
Whatever works for you. Most people I know have put no effort into calibration, and I suggest self-deception or self-modification to them as it works better than unconscious acceptance, though perhaps not better than conscious acceptance.
They may be interested in original works; Landauer was the one that put forward the information entropy explanation of Maxwell's Demon, but all I can find in a quick search is his 1961 paper on heat generated by irreversible logic operations, which is the underpinning of the argument that equal entropy is generated in the demon's memory.
Actually, I had always heard that it was Szilard, back in 1929, that came up with the original idea. So says wikipedia.
I first heard of Szilard's thought experiment back in high school from Pierce's classic popularization of Shannon's theory Symbols, Signals, and Noise. This book, which I strongly recommend, is now available free online. The best non-mathematical exposition of Shannon ever. (Well, there is some math, but it is pretty simple).
Szilard's idea is pretty cool. A heat engine with a working fluid consisting of a very thin gas. How thin? A single molecule.
So, from my reading Szilard's answer and Landauer's answer are slightly different. But the descriptions on the page you linked vs. the Maxwell's Demon page are slightly different, and so that may be the source of my impression. It seems that Szilard claimed that acquiring the information is where the entropy gets balanced, whereas Landauer claims that restoring the Demon to its original memory is where the entropy gets balanced. Regardless of whether or not both are correct / deserve to be called the 'information entropy explanation', Landauer's is the one that inspired my original explanation.