in thread "Accelerationism": Is there a way to state this in terms of entropy / information theory that would hold across all these domains? 5mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6 Is there a way to st (view hidden) retry 6 6 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... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4 No one who's done wo (view hidden) retry 4 4 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... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 You're straw-manning (view hidden) retry 3 3