Discussion about this post

User's avatar
David Perlmutter's avatar

"...way more ways a system can be disordered than ways it can be ordered...."

And probably even more than the 15 different ways John Tanner of the The Five Royales boasted he could get to his girlfriend's house on their record "Right Around The Corner" (Double meanings in R&B song lyrics personify Ockham and the Razor perfectly).

Expand full comment
Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I frequently think about Entropy when I’m scrambling eggs. Also packing. Takes an hour to pick the things you need for a week away from your own bed, stuff it all in a little box. Get to your hotel, boom! 5 minutes to unpack. My standard entropy viz to is our ever expanding universe. Imagine playing your Uno reverse card and getting all that stuff back in the big bang box

Expand full comment
24 more comments...

No posts