Stephen Wolfram

Yeah.

Right.

But I mean, but you know, it might in fact do the right thing.

Yeah.

Because it might be the case that, you know, and that's really partly a question of...

sort of how complicated is the human, you know, one of the things that's always surprising in some sense is that, you know, sometimes human psychology is not that complicated in some sense.

Right.

So second law of thermodynamics, sometimes called law of entropy increase, is this principle of physics that says, well, my version of it would be things tend to get more random over time.

A version of it that there are many different sort of formulations of it that are things like heat doesn't spontaneously go from a hotter body to a colder one.

when you have mechanical work kind of gets dissipated into heat.

You have friction and kind of when you systematically move things, eventually there'll be sort of the energy of moving things gets kind of ground down into heat.

So people first sort of paid attention to this back in the 1820s when steam engines were a big thing.

And the big question was, how efficient could a steam engine be?

There's this chap called Sadi Carnot who was a French engineer.

Actually, his father was an elaborate mathematical engineer in France.

But he figured out these rules for the possible efficiency of something like a steam engine.

And in sort of a side part of what he did was this idea that mechanical energy tends to get dissipated as heat, that you end up going from sort of systematic mechanical motion to this kind of random thing.

Well, at that time, nobody knew what heat was.

At that time, people thought that heat was a fluid.

They called it caloric.