matt on Nostr: All made sense until the last bit— in no way is Nostr a closed system. Since ...

All made sense until the last bit— in no way is Nostr a closed system.

Since information (energy) flows into Nostr, it is an open system.

An open system can have its entropy increase or decrease depending on how the energy enters the system:

If energy enters as heat: entropy increases.
If energy enters as work: entropy decreases.

To continue the analogy:
Heat is like spam; Work is like notes and other stuff. Deleting is undoing work, so deleting increasing entropy. Some people believe intelligence is the ability to decrease entropy.


Therefore, our goal as devs (really as Systems Engineers) is to increase the “work to heat” ratio in Nostr, to seek out what people around here yearn for: pure signal, no noise.

No-delete contributes to the signal. Delete contributes to the noise.

(Btw, for those who are unfamiliar, “work” is a formal term rigorously defined as energy*distance. In fact it is the same “work” as in PoW)