If you rephrased that as “no matter what microstate compatible with the extrinsic observations the system is in, our model makes good predictions” I think you’d find that most physicists would recognize that as standard thermodynamics, and also that (like me) they wouldn’t recognize it as a game :).
If you rephrased that as “no matter what microstate compatible with the extrinsic observations the system is in, our model makes good predictions” I think you’d find that most physicists would recognize that as standard thermodynamics, and also that (like me) they wouldn’t recognize it as a game :).
Okay, I’ve edited the relevant part of the original post to link to this comment thread.