Entropy

TagLast edit: 15 Nov 2022 21:24 UTC by Ruby

Introduction to abstract entropy

Alex_Altair20 Oct 2022 21:03 UTC

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The predictive power of dissipative adaptation

dr_s17 Dec 2023 14:01 UTC

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Entropy isn’t sufficient to measure password strength

benwr17 Jan 2022 6:41 UTC

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Entropy and Temperature

spxtr17 Dec 2014 8:04 UTC

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Perceptual Entropy and Frozen Estimates

Davidmanheim3 Jun 2015 19:27 UTC

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When bits of optimization imply bits of modeling: the Touchette-Lloyd theorem

Alfred Harwood and Alex_Altair

15 Dec 2025 4:21 UTC

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Embedded Agents are Quines

lsusr and DaemonicSigil

12 Dec 2023 4:57 UTC

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Dealing with infinite entropy

Alex_Altair1 Mar 2023 15:01 UTC

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Hypothesis Space Entropy

lsusr14 May 2021 7:21 UTC

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Entropy, and Short Codes

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Feb 2008 3:16 UTC

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Entropy Scaling And Intrinsic Memory

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Adam Shai

15 Nov 2022 18:11 UTC

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K-complexity is silly; use cross-entropy instead

So8res20 Dec 2022 23:06 UTC

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A Scientific Invitation

Oleksandr Koida3 Jun 2025 15:38 UTC

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(zenodo.org)

Time’s arrow ⇒ decision theory

Aram Ebtekar2 Sep 2025 6:20 UTC

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(doi.org)

EvoNet: Towards Self-Evolving, Entropy-Guided AI

Leonhard173 Jul 2025 9:44 UTC

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A potentially relevant exchange I had recently with ChatGPT 4o

roan22 Feb 2025 7:59 UTC

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Emergence Is a Universal Non-Zero-Sum Phenomenon.

James Stephen Brown14 May 2024 8:06 UTC

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Gradientism: Ethics After Physics

Ethan Jon4 Dec 2025 18:12 UTC

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Exponentials vs The Universe

amitlevy496 Sep 2025 23:52 UTC

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(open.substack.com)

The Universe That Remembers - Time’s Arrow and the Quantum Consensus

Anthony Fishbeck6 Dec 2025 23:06 UTC

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Thermodynamic entropy = Kolmogorov complexity

Aram Ebtekar17 Feb 2025 5:56 UTC

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Speculations on Sleep in an Age of Machines

cleanwhiteroom29 Aug 2024 13:42 UTC

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The Beginning of Spacetime: An Entropic Model for the Geometry of Collapse and Coherence

TheThoughtX21 May 2025 3:41 UTC

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What if there is a much simpler alternative to Maxwell’s Demon?

Vivek Kumar9 Jul 2025 13:23 UTC

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Gravitizing Quantization

dmcg2241 Jun 2025 9:05 UTC

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Emergence vs Entropy—a universal paradox

James Stephen Brown16 Jul 2025 21:31 UTC

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Requirements for a STEM-capable AGI Value Learner (my Case for Less Doom)

RogerDearnaley25 May 2023 9:26 UTC

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Proliferation, Entropy and the Alignment Problem

Mikil Foss6 Apr 2025 23:13 UTC

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Are AIs like Animals? Perspectives and Strategies from Biology

Jackson Emanuel16 May 2023 23:39 UTC

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A hundredth of a bit of extra entropy

Adam Scherlis24 Dec 2022 21:12 UTC

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A Timeless Universe Viewed From the Inside

0xA12 Nov 2025 22:32 UTC

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Emergence Through Entropy Filtering: A Recursive Cascade Model

consciousintelligencesystem2 Aug 2025 10:23 UTC

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Algorithmic thermodynamics and three types of optimization

Daniel C and Aram Ebtekar

8 Dec 2025 15:40 UTC

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Emergent Gravity—order out of chaos

James Stephen Brown18 Jul 2025 19:26 UTC

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(nonzerosum.games)

AGI’s Opposing Force

SimonBaars16 Aug 2024 4:18 UTC

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