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>has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another?

Arieh Ben Naim thinks entropy is better described by Shannon's Measure of Information. I haven't actually read any of his books, but I've been meaning to "one of these days".

http://ariehbennaim.com/books/index.html

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Frustrating, that list contains almost no usable links. Its as if he doesn’t want you to actually read or understand what he is saying.

  - Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense

(https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Demystified-Second-Reduced-Co...)

  - A Farewell to Entropy

(https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Entropy-Statistical-Thermody...)

  - Discover Entropy and the Second Law

(https://www.amazon.com/Discover-Entropy-Second-Law-Thermodyn...)

  - Entropy And The Second Law: Interpretation And Misss-Interpretationsss

(https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Second-Law-Interpretation-Mis...)

  - Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe

(https://www.amazon.com/Information-Entropy-Life-Universe-Wha...)

  - Entropy: The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth

(https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Truth-Whole-Nothing-But/dp/98...)

  - Four Laws That Do Not Drive The Universe, The: Elements Of Thermodynamics For The Curious And Intelligent

(https://www.amazon.com/Four-Laws-That-Drive-Universe/dp/9813...)

  - TIME'S ARROW (?): The Timeless Nature of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

(https://www.amazon.com/TIMES-ARROW-Timeless-Entropy-Thermody...)

  - Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents

(https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Smart-their-Curious-Parents/d...)

Thanks, I do appreciate you extracting this. I did follow one or two of these originally. But I'm not going to buy an ebook on Amazon to figure out if he has anything useful to say.

LibGen?

"Shannon's Measure of Information and the Thermodynamic Entropy" https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3703629

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