ajay_jetti comments on The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2008 12:48AM

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Comment author: ajay_jetti 22 May 2009 06:58:27AM 0 points [-]

Indeed is one hell of a post, i am from computer science background, had to read the post 5 to six times and most of the comments at least twice, its worth it.

If someone is still following the post, i would like to know, can randomness of the particles be measured? or is it calculated according to probability? i remember vaguely from my college reading that entropy is random energy, so, for a perfect transfer X-> Y, how is the final state determined (because of the randomness).Arent accurate beliefs functions of randomness?

Comment author: wnoise 15 February 2010 06:41:23AM 5 points [-]

Part of the point of this post is that particles aren't ever random -- random is not a property of the particles, but of our description of the particles.