https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0909.1726/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784253urn:hackerpapers:mention:0909.1726:41784253Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:32:11 GMT<p>It is possible to make quantitative statements that I think capture many of the intuitions you assert. Here was one attempt: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.10... That particular proposal was mathematically wrong for reasons I still find physically perplexing (it turns out that for some events quantum theory allows for stronger memory records - defined via classial mutual information - of entropy decreasing events!). A simple example is in here: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1726 (I am second author).</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0909.1726/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph