David Wallace
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the system went to equilibrium or maximized entropy or minimized energy or something.
Or, you know, lots and lots of possible ways the system might have started all converged to the same place.
So we may as well assume the system starts there.
So there were kind of moves of that kind that you use to justify certain initial state considerations.
You know, if I'm doing
the physics of stars or something, I'm not actually going to construct that just as a kind of throughput system that says, like, whatever the star starts with and it is how it turns up.
I'll I'll try to make some substantive claims about
what's reasonable as a starting assumption about the star and I'll give physics reasons for that.
But again, applying that kind of reasoning in cosmology where we're talking about the whole universe, that's trickier.
I do my research.
Yeah.
I bet as a grad student just in
I guess there's probably still uh stuff in there, but I wouldn't stick by I don't promise to stick with most of what it is.
Okay, so the the the um the the practical answer to the latter thing is uh I I wrote that thing as a as a as a grad student, as a a graduate exercise in my physics um PhD.
Um and
put it on the PhilSaiar sort of the archive dot org at a time when archive was a bit more free reeling about what you put on it.
Um, and even then slightly against my better judgment at the advice of my supervisor.
Uh, so I probably I would not have done that.
I would not advise a student to do that at this point.
So there's a lot in that paper that's fairly half paid.
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