https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2307.09914/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199779urn:hackerpapers:mention:2307.09914:37199779Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:57:36 GMT<p>(5) (the minimum value of entropy) seems to come from an extremely hand-wavy argument on page 5 here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09914 It appears to be an example of argument by italics. I’m not convinced that it has any real content — it seems to be trying to say that the author thinks all systems are either being observed or they aren’t, and that there are therefore at least two microstates. I think this is entirely missing the point and is mostly wrong. Even in the highly classical case of a gas, you have a box full of gas, with n particles and some volume V, etc. Those parameters form the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2307.09914/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph