What does the concept of entropy mean?
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Entropy.
Such a simple word, but so complex in what it is.
Okay. Let’s say I have a perfectly nice stack of blocks, stacked vertically, ordered by A, B, C, D, E, and so on. This is a state of low entropy.
Then I smashed the stack.
Now we see blocks scattered all over the floor, randomly. This is a state of higher entropy.
How do we get the stack back in order? We spend work to put it back, or we can reset the universe (or open up the menu and press Load).
Entropy is the same. You can spend work and try to reduce entropy, or simply go back in time.
Entropy as laymen can understand is a representation of disorderliness of a state of things in a particular space. It naturally goes up (unless you’re rewinding time). You have to put some work in so it comes back down.
(And whoever playing jumbo jengas at 2AM in a fucking loud party next to my apartment, you can go fuck yourself. The noise of jenga entropy is too damn loud.)
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