Or release nuclear power. Or just blow shit up. Whatever increases overall entropy.
I’d give it some thought. There are lots of analogous examples in physics. Think of a siphon. Almost teleologically, liquid flows uphill because the energy cost of that is more than balanced by liquid also going down. 1/
The details of the process are less clear in this conjecture, but it’s perfectly orthodox to point out that local increase in order compensated by overall increase in entropy doesn’t violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. 2/
it’s an observation that spans from hurricanes to automobiles to life itself. these structures look organized, like they defy the second law of thermodynamics, but in fact they organize order locally in ways that increase overall disorder faster than if they did not exist. 1/
the conjecture is that this isn’t a thing that coincidentally happens, but that the universe in some sense selects for these things. 2/
traditional human intelligence fits the bill. we burn a lot more stuff, very literally, than say comparable apes. we contribute more and faster to overall entropy! 3/
we are, in that sense, literally burning the universe down faster than it would otherwise burn its way down to heat death. 4/
"They’ve genuinely identified the pattern I described in the Bonfire essay and then committed the most consequential intellectual error possible. They saw the fire and decided to pray to it." syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-0... ht @steveroth.bsky.social
Anthropic should name their next model “Opus DEI” just to fuck with everyone.
“This isn’t the hill I would have chosen to die on, but I’m encouraged that they even have a hill.”
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don’t mock his susceptibility to @mayor.nyc.gov’s charms against Trump or hold it against him. it is one of the man’s few redeeming characteristics.
matthew rhys absolutely has to play this guy when they make the movie.
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the net effect of IEEPA tariffs, after refunds, will have been a govt coordinated cartel to raise consumer prices, negotiate lower vendor prices, and increase profitability among domestic firms that import goods. not what the administration claimed it was doing, but kind of a Republican happy place.
“A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
Link Preview: Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers: More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.snowballs are a gateway drug to cream pies. everybody knows that.
the internet of AI simulated loved ones will be called the deadiverse.
when you are not carefree, people who appear carefree are like a different species.
Outside the US, are SMS messages also a site of rampant spam, or do other countries regulate to prevent that?
“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
this is maybe good for the possibility of high quality journalism, you don’t want a newspaper’s finances to be levered to whether the news flatters the audience’s priors and prejudices. but in the absence of (counterproductive) market accountability, how can it be made (more virtuously) accountable?
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i mean to say if the immutable characteristics is sufficiently rare, then a group that filters on it can come to seem exclusive. you read it i guess oppositely? (as often, i don’t write very clearly.)
the idea of a “distillation attack” is quite rich from people whose product is precisely a distillation of all of our creative work. (i favor distillation! but what’s good for the goose…) drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/h...
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