Reposted by @interstice.bsky.socialAbel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I asked Opus to recreate the first brainrot. it's something, I guess 161396
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026new post btdubz bsky.app/profile/inte... 001
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Also check out my reversible cellular automaton shadertoy shadertoy.com/view/ssfXRf 000
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So that's (part of) why objects exist! LW crosspost: lesswrong.com/posts/pLapRT... Next I will cover spatial chaos and the interpretation of quantum mechanics!lesswrong.comThermodynamics and Objects — LessWrong2.3.1 Varied stable objects 2.3.1.1 Life as we know it requires a world which is intelligible and predictable, but also rich enough to support the co… 110
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Temperature gradients and directed work are themselves due to burning fuel like wood, due to sunlight, due to the sun's density, ultimately due to gravitational collapse of the simple initial conditions. 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How are objects created? High temperatures and applications of large amounts of work(applied force) can move systems between local minima. They then become stable in less extreme conditions. 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is what gives objects their stability. To oversimplify a bit we can identify objects with particular local minima(basins really); the diversity of objects reflects the richness of this landscape. 110
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What does this have to do with objects? Due to the above, objects will sit at a local maximum of system+environment entropy, or in units of energy, a local minimum of "free energy". Small perturbations from the minimum will be pushed back by the dynamics. 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Local subsystems tend to configurations that maximize the total entropy of themselves and the environment. This is mostly determined by exchange of conserved quantities such as energy. Energy increases accessible state-space, so subsystems "want" to give away energy. 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Unlike GoL our, universe preserves volumes in phase-space. This is important because it give the universe an inherent *directionality* under abstraction: chaotic dynamics tend to move towards regions of larger entropy(= logarithm of state-space volume) 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Game of Life doesn't have objects in this sense! Why? Because GoL patterns are not robust to small perturbations; if they encounter any other pattern they will most likely be destroyed. 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In particular I focus on the richness and stability of *objects*. e.g. tables, rocks, boats. Objects in our world are richly varied, move around and interact, and are robust to small nudges. 100
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New blog post! In which I start to analyze how our universe's laws may in fact be special in terms of giving rise to a universe which supports life and sentience from simple initial conditions. thermontology.com/posts/physic... 110
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026oh, as in they don't show up on the timeline? noted, thanks. 230
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026thermontology.com !!!thermontology.com Thermontology 160
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 15/08/2026New! Blog? Post thermontology.com/posts/metaph... 010
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/07/2026famous manga: fist of the north star, beserk, jojo 021
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I updated muh blog thermontology.com/posts/metaph...thermontology.com 1. Metaphilosophy 130
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I mean I can see the argument "there's no way we're going to coordinate well enough to pause, so it's a waste of time" but it seems to me that a sane civilization would absolutely be pausing right now 130
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I think people holding such a view(that is, doom has substantial probability but is not certain, regardless of whether they support a pause) have had better predictions of the way things are going down than any other group basically 120
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 16/04/2026So what would you say to those who hold a "moderate" doomer position that there is a lot of uncertainty but doom is certainly a live possibility and this on its own is reason to substantially slow down 120
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 28/03/2026This is almost certainly an ai video made by some twitter degen 1280
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The stunlocking was made all the more infuriating by the characters' repetitive screams of "EYAAAA" and "EH??" accompanying the egg-rolls 021
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 27/03/20263d platforms where you run around rolling eggs over fruit until they hatch into monsters that do your bidding. Fun local multiplayer where you could mercilessly stunlock people with repeated egg-rolling 230
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I liked Billy Hatcher and the giant egg 140
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 27/02/2026prediction just seems like the easiest way to get a bunch of feedback signals from the world for learning so I assume the brain does a lot of it. 020
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Seems like twitter might actually be dying on a technical level. on the one hand it's sad, on the other the gradual failure of the antiwoke hostile takeover to maintain a prima facie not very complicated site is kind of abstractly interesting. 0101
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 14/02/2026This and adjacent attitudes seem common among rats. Familiarity with deception and zero sum games might've been useful back when many of them got convinced to work for openai and anthropic 030
Reposted by @interstice.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 12/02/2026Andrej Karpathy was cursed by a witch to write smaller and smaller GPT implementations until he finds one that fits in a single character. We can only guess at what he did to earn such a fate 719919
Reposted by @interstice.bsky.socialinterstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026at last we can build "humans consulting HCH" from the classic blog post "maybe consider building humans consulting HCH" www.lesswrong.com/posts/NXqs4n...lesswrong.comHumans Consulting HCH — LessWrong(See also: strong HCH.) • Consider a human Hugh who has access to a question-answering machine. Suppose the machine answers question Q by perfectly i… 031
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026at last we can build "humans consulting HCH" from the classic blog post "maybe consider building humans consulting HCH" www.lesswrong.com/posts/NXqs4n...lesswrong.comHumans Consulting HCH — LessWrong(See also: strong HCH.) • Consider a human Hugh who has access to a question-answering machine. Suppose the machine answers question Q by perfectly i… 031
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Nice try but I already wrote an arxiv preprint proving arxiv preprints are impossible 0121
Reposted by @interstice.bsky.socialinterstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Ideal rational agents would only use unsubsidized PMs to hedge. In practice PMs are about exploiting peoples' psychological flaws and produce good forecasts as an externality. 031
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Ideal rational agents would only use unsubsidized PMs to hedge. In practice PMs are about exploiting peoples' psychological flaws and produce good forecasts as an externality. 031
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 05/11/2025what exactly is your issue with people having a place to post compiled tex files online 000
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Uh, and like 90% of math and physics preprints? You think those should all be shut down too? 210
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while 120
interstice.bsky.social @interstice.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Semi-relatedly I tried learning ancient Greek a while back and was struck by how many different (and short) words they had for "therefore", logical implication. (disclaimer I am not an expert, this may not even be true) Perhaps related to their propensity for philosophy 030
