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by mannykannot 1870 days ago
I believe we are talking about Shannon's direct analogy between information and entropy here. The low probabliity of the atoms of the spaceship being arranged as they are - a specific design of a spaceship - out of all their possible arrangements, is a state of low entropy and high information content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

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That was what I was talking about, yes.