Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.973

   > it will naturally happen that it becomes messy over time. If your office or room is messy, it will never clean itself up all by itself. You need to do work. That's because entropy is increasing.

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2. 02 · yt0.799

   If your office or room is messy, it will never clean itself up all by itself. You need to do work. That's because entropy is increasing. If you'd like to think of it as the working out of a great law of physics, be my guest. And the reason why this is true is because there are more ways to be high entropy than to be low entropy. There are more arrangements of stuff that are messy than are organized. This was the brilliant insight of Ludwig Boltzmann, the 19th century physicist. And so therefore if you start in a configuration of low entropy, entropy naturally increases. The problem was, theref…

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3. 03 · yt0.734

   The next step is if the universe is just a story of stuff becoming more and more disorderly and entropic over time, why are we here? Why is anything complex and intricate and organized exist in the universe? This is another good question to which we don't know the complete answer, but it's interesting that there's a big part of the answer which is that simplicity versus complexity is a whole different axis on which to think about the world than low entropy versus high entropy. If you think about the classic example of entropy increasing, mixing cream together with coffee. You know that in this…

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4. 04 · yt0.727

   I might guess what I'm gonna do tomorrow, but I don't remember it in the same way. I have no photographs or memory books of the future. I was younger. I will always be older in the future. What is going on with that? And the answer is it's not the fundamental laws of physics, it's the collective behavior of many, many things in the universe that start out in a special state. It goes back to the idea of entropy from the 1800s, the idea of the disorderliness of a system, the randomness, the disorganization. And entropy increases with time. That's the famous second law of thermodynamics. Why does…

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5. 05 · yt0.718

   And therefore it's not only compatible with the increase of entropy to see complex forms arise in the universe. It's because entropy is increasing that it can possibly happen. And this behavior, complexity going up and going down, is not just cream and coffee. The universe is the same way. The universe started very simple and low entropy, hot dense expanding universe near the Big Bang. It will end very simple and high entropy. Eventually all the stars will burn out. All the black holes will evaporate and we'll have nothing but empty space. We'll once again be very, very simple but high entropy…

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6. 06 · yt0.715

   We don't remember the future I hope nobody here remembers the future You can make choices right so like right now you could decide That you think this is the most boring lecture you've ever heard you can leave you don't need to be here for the next half of the lecture But you cannot right now decide not to have come to the lecture you Cannot make a decision that affects the past right there's an asymmetry of influence where does that come from? If the underlying law is to treat the past and future symmetrically Well, it's all comes down to this egg breaking if you understand the egg breaking y…

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7. 07 · yt0.713

   In basic physical terms, we talk about entropy increasing. Entropy being a measure of disorderliness, disorganization of the universe. Entropy goes goes up as time goes on. You start with orderly things like an unbroken egg and you can break the egg. That's easy. You can scramble it. putting the egg back together much much harder and will never happen all by itself. So the physicist's idea of the origin of time asymmetry in all of its different manifestations is what we call the second law of thermodynamics. The first law is boring. It says energy is conserved. Second law very interesting. It …

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8. 08 · _intake0.711

   - [`001-se-as-a-characteristic-of-broader-reality-see-i-ve-always-ha`](entropy/001-se-as-a-characteristic-of-broader-reality-see-i-ve-always-ha.md) — score=7 `00:51:46.280` — se as a characteristic of broader reality. See, I've always had this this issue with entropy because entropy always seem - [`002-it-will-naturally-happen-that-it-becomes-messy-over-time-if-`](entropy/002-it-will-naturally-happen-that-it-becomes-messy-over-time-if-.md) — score=7 `00:25:44.370` — it will naturally happen that it becomes messy over time. If your office or room is messy, it will never clean itself up - [`003-…

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9. 09 · _intake0.711

   - [`001-se-as-a-characteristic-of-broader-reality-see-i-ve-always-ha`](entropy/001-se-as-a-characteristic-of-broader-reality-see-i-ve-always-ha.md) — score=7 `00:51:46.280` — se as a characteristic of broader reality. See, I've always had this this issue with entropy because entropy always seem - [`002-it-will-naturally-happen-that-it-becomes-messy-over-time-if-`](entropy/002-it-will-naturally-happen-that-it-becomes-messy-over-time-if-.md) — score=7 `00:25:44.370` — it will naturally happen that it becomes messy over time. If your office or room is messy, it will never clean itself up - [`003-…

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10. 10 · yt0.707

    Um I will say the um uh turns out and it took about 50 years for me to sort of straighten this out that actually that original question that I had about the second law of thermodynamics is all about computational irreducibility in the end. So if if we take uh you know something gas molecules in the box bouncing around becoming more random, we can look at sort of a space-time picture of that, we can kind of simplify it a bit and we can end up with something that's just one of these cellar automaton systems where we just have a a grid of cells and we're just updating cells according to the value…

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