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The Bayesian reframing of that would be that when all you have measured is the macrostate, and you have no further information by which to assign a higher probability to any compatible microstate than any other, you follow the principle of indifference and assign a uniform distribution.


Yes indeed, thanks for pointing this out. There are strong relationships between max-ent and Bayesian formulations.

For example one can use a non-uniform prior over the micro-states. If that prior happens to be in the Darmois-Koopman family that implicitly means that there are some non explicitly stated constraints that bind the micro-state statistics.




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