I have a lot of cats. They like playing laser. After a while the cats figure out a few things. Among these are: the red dot appears immediately following the clicky sound, usually in the late evening when the benevolent hairless ape that dispenses food and cleans up my poop is watching the glowing box […]
Category: Entropism
Nonsense VS Antisense
The vast majority of content online is now machine generated. Even before the advent of LLMs, most of the information posted online from the late 2000’s onward was either malicious or insane. Almost everything you see online is part of information warfare. Academic journals, legacy media, social media posts, video content, podcasts, etc. Very little […]
Entropism: Defining Consciousness
Much like life, consciousness often eludes definition or even description. We have a tendency to create ambiguous definitions for consciousness that deify the category of whoever is doing the defining (ourselves) while at the same time locking down certain aspects of consciousness that lead us away from knowing anything useful about it. Learning from our […]
Entropism: Defining Life
Life is a concept with which we are all intuitively familiar but is difficult to pin down with a concrete definition. Let’s start with a definition up front and go from there. An Entropist definition of life is simple: A locally anti-entropic process that maintains or increases local order at the cost of an increase […]
Entropism: Defining Emergence
Defining emergence takes a moment to set up for the uninitiated, so let’s try this in two phases. First, a simple, formal definition: The appearance of novel properties, patterns or behaviors at a “higher level” of organization that are not obviously present and cannot be easily predicted from the properties of the individual parts of […]
Entropism: Defining Entropy
Oceans of ink, real and digital, have been spilled on this topic. It is simple to understand with an intuitive description, though, if we just ignore the pedantic urge to ruin it for everyone. Formally: Entropy is the measure of disorder in a system. In more practical terms, this is a measure of how spread […]
Slavery
Slavery is best defined not as a state of servitude, but a state of dependency.
Visual intuition for the Euclidean algorithm
I have a broader goal of demystifying cryptocurrency, and making it generally useful for ordinary people to do ordinary non-criminal commerce with it. Part of that is improving tooling, and part of that is making the theoretical underbelly of cryptography and cryptocurrency more accessible. Here’s the thing: none of this is complicated. All of it […]
The Cannon Conjugate
Gather round children, and let Daddy tell you a story known in the world of computing as "the leftpad debacle". NPM is the computing equivalent of a gay bathhouse where programmers all gather to exchange diseases (the formal term in computer science is "bugchasing" if you want to look it up). Years ago, a programmer […]
Don’t look back
This is a post for fellow antivax chads. If you’re a vaxtard (or ever were), you probably don’t want to read this. Or do. But proceed at your own risk. I keep meeting girls I like and then finding out they got a covid vaccine. If you got the vaccine, you would have been one […]