Ron_Hardin comments on Entropy, and Short Codes - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 February 2008 03:16AM

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Comment author: Ron_Hardin 23 February 2008 10:45:30AM 0 points [-]

It's called entropy because somebody told Shannon that the same mathematical quantity already existed in thermodynamics, when the question what to call it came up.

I don't know that there's any other operational connection.

Like there's no entropy gradient giving the arrow of time, or system-wide increase.