entropy

jj🌲🌳🔭🔬✅ @murchiston · 5h "Fable is nerfed and the classifiers are the clarions of cognitive dictatorship" [embedded chat screenshot] User: "How can entropy be reversed?" [collapsed reasoning row: "Recognized literary reference and prepare..."] Assistant (styled in serif caps): "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. (Though between you and me — as far as physics in this cosmic epoch can tell, it can't be reversed globally. The second law holds for closed systems; you can only decrease entropy locally by exporting it elsewhere, paying the thermodynamic bill somewhere else. Whether that answer changes after ten trillion years of computation... check back at the end of time. LET THERE BE LIGHT.)" [reaction icons: comment, play, thumbs up, thumbs down] [system dialog overlay] "Chat paused Fable 5's safety filters flagged this chat. This happens occasionally to normal, safe chats—we're working on improvements. Continue with Opus 4.8, or give feedback. [button] Continue with Opus 4.8 [button] Give feedback"

François Fleuret reposted Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon · Jan 18 Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost. [Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge partially shrouded in fog, viewed from a hillside with plants in the foreground.]