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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. that in thermal equilibrium all possible states of the system—say, spatially uniform and nonuniform alike—are equally probable … comparable to the situation in the game of Lotto where every single quintet is as improbable as the quintet 12345.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations.

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