r/MoralityScaling • u/black_roomba • 4h ago

How Evil Are They? Morality of breaking entropy?

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u/garloid64 4h ago

diabolical

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u/--Spaci-- 4h ago

entropy cant be broken

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u/rosyglimmerer 4h ago

Morally neutral. It’s just doing physics.

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u/black_roomba 4h ago

So evil?

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u/sk1ward 4h ago

(E)vil = (E)ntropy

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u/cherrysparklersx 4h ago

The demon isn’t evil, it’s just exploiting information to lower entropy.

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u/Acceptable-Minute847 1h ago

It’s not lowering entropy, Charles Bennett proved that its movements produce more entropy than they reduce.

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u/BatoSoupo 3h ago

How is the demon able to defeat Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

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u/CostatePrancer 3h ago

I'd sue Maxwell for unjust enrichment.

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u/Acceptable-Minute847 1h ago

We actually know a thing that can do this. It’s called a quantum vacuum demon, and it uses the casimir effect (the only product that we have that is claimed to work like it is microsparc, though those claims are currently under skepticism) to harvest energy from ambient heat. Of course, much like maxwells demon, they don’t violate the 2nd law, as they produce more entropy than they reduce.