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Maxwell's Daemon's fatal flaw is that it must consume energy and do work to analyze the state of the system, move the door as particles approach it, etc. The e
by PeterWhittaker 6y ago
Maxwell's Daemon's fatal flaw is that it must consume energy and do work to analyze the state of the system, move the door as particles approach it, etc.
The entire thought experiment is fundamentally flawed, the gedankexperiment of perpetual motion imps.
- SilasX 6y agoYep, said the same about this modified version when this story (in a different publication) was posted a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302918