Since time is the direction of increased entropy, this feels like it has some deep connection to the notion of agents as things that reduce entropy (only locally, obviously) to achieve their preferences: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q4hLMDrFd8fbteeZ8/measuring-optimization-power (I’m not sure this is 100% on-point to what I mean, but it’s the closest thing I could find.)
Since agents can only decrease entropy locally, not globally, I wonder if we could similarly say that they can “reverse the arrow of time” only in some local sense. (Omega can predict me, but I can’t predict Omega. And even Omega can’t predict everything, because something something second law of thermodynamics.)
Since time is the direction of increased entropy, this feels like it has some deep connection to the notion of agents as things that reduce entropy (only locally, obviously) to achieve their preferences
Since time is the direction of increased entropy, this feels like it has some deep connection to the notion of agents as things that reduce entropy (only locally, obviously) to achieve their preferences: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q4hLMDrFd8fbteeZ8/measuring-optimization-power (I’m not sure this is 100% on-point to what I mean, but it’s the closest thing I could find.)
Since agents can only decrease entropy locally, not globally, I wonder if we could similarly say that they can “reverse the arrow of time” only in some local sense. (Omega can predict me, but I can’t predict Omega. And even Omega can’t predict everything, because something something second law of thermodynamics.)
Reminded me of Utility Maximization = Description Length Minimization.
Omega can’t predict everything, because Omega can’t predict Omega.