When I worldbuild with magic, this is somehow automatically intuitive—so I always end up assuming (if not necessarily specifying explicitly) a ‘magic field’ or smth that does the thermodynamic work and that the bits of entropy are shuffled over to. Kind of like how looking something up on the internet is ‘magic’ from an outside observer’s POV if people only have access nodes inside their heads and cannot actually show them to observers, or like how extracting power from the electricity grid into devices is ‘magic’ under the same conditions.
Only people didn’t explicitly invent and build the involved internet and the electricity grid first. So more like how speech is basically telepathy, as Eliezer specified elsewhere~
When I worldbuild with magic, this is somehow automatically intuitive—so I always end up assuming (if not necessarily specifying explicitly) a ‘magic field’ or smth that does the thermodynamic work and that the bits of entropy are shuffled over to. Kind of like how looking something up on the internet is ‘magic’ from an outside observer’s POV if people only have access nodes inside their heads and cannot actually show them to observers, or like how extracting power from the electricity grid into devices is ‘magic’ under the same conditions.
Only people didn’t explicitly invent and build the involved internet and the electricity grid first. So more like how speech is basically telepathy, as Eliezer specified elsewhere~