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in thread "Accelerationism":

Is there a way to state this in terms of entropy / information theory that would hold across all these domains? 7mo ago received

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No one who's done work on this says "life is about increasing entropy," as if that were an explanation of life. The claim is that life is a dynamic structure that *decreases* entropy within a local boundary. This has the *effect* of increasing entropy more... 7mo ago received

No one who's done wo received

You're straw-manning. The claim is not that decreasing entropy is a sufficient condition, just a necessary one. Of course life has further requirements. That doesn't make the entropy consideration unimportant, especially if it can be related to intelligenc... 6mo ago received

You're straw-manning received