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Entropy is favored as a topic by SF writers simply because its central idea of "disorder" can be widely applied to both scientific and non-scientific settings.

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What do you think of entropy vis a vis the arrow of time? It's currently one of those five or six physics topics that keeps coming up everywhere for me.

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I don't know enough about physics to comment on that.

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OK, no probs! I will share most of what I'm learning here, and then you can tell me what you think of the ideas. Gimme a few months.

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Oct 22Liked by Andrew Smith

Comparing the money thrown at thermodynamics to the energy being secured through small modular reactors for AI in recent contracts, e.g. Microsoft and Three Mile Island. Will the resulting info being produced magnify the energy needed to implement the products from the new data?

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Great question, Dale, and a pertinent comparison, although I think we're very much at the earliest stages today.

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Oct 22Liked by Andrew Smith

You keep trying to come up with good band names in almost every comment thread. And all this time, "Hot Movements" was staring us right in the face.

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"Hot Movements was staring us right in the face" might also be a really good line from our first co-authored novel, but we should consider making it a "choose your own adventure" type book, where the reader decides how to interpret that.

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