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It's only a violation in the same way life is in violation. If the system is open it's fine to mess about as long as energy flows. Of note, information is actually pretty low entro…

His book is great, but to be clear I feel like he writes exactly one book. I've read it in many forms and it's an amazing book. But don't be surprised when you realize that every b…

Annihilation By Jeff VanderMeer Diaspora by Greg Egan Anathem by Neal Stephenson (this one is a bit like doing homework but worth it imo) If you vibe with short stories Exhalation …

I'd push back on the redaction point. One of the primary conceits of the book is that the information is generally affected, which includes the contents of the book itself. While d…

Yeah, it's trying to cohere the structure of the book with the topic matter which I really appreciate. It doesn't always quite land, but I think it was really worthwhile. Although …

Researcher here, if you like antimemes as a concept then this is a nice treatment that introduces people to what it means and how one needs to think around them in order to functio…

A malicious antimeme would be a dark pattern in web design for handling privacy/data/etc. Something designed to satisfy whatever law/regulation requires them to have the option whi…

I spent a fair amount of time thinking about this and the character of antimemes. Even ended up writing a whole taxonomy and mathematical framework for it. In general a meme is spe…

Are you an LLM?

Honestly this one is cooler, I've never seen these kinds of gliders before https://rulehunt.org/?rulesetHex=000018000000001810c5d585dc5...

Oh this is neat, it seems to be a good way to switch off of doom scrolling cause after using it for a few minutes it was pretty easy to just go do something else without the urge t…

I worked on this once after an argument with my boyfriend. The original argument was "the ones digit has permanent pattern in 2^n {2,4,8,6,2...}. We made a system to generate digit…

Looks rad! Can't wait to integrate this into my workflow

I found guardrails AI really useful for my research on LLMs. Otherwise I would have wasted a lot of time trying to curate the outputs from my experiments. Don’t cram too much in a …