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2024

The Entropy of Things: Why Everything Gets Messy

Or: Why Your Desk Always Looks Like a Tornado Hit It

Have you ever wondered why keeping things organized feels like fighting an uphill battle? Why your perfectly sorted drawer inevitably descends into chaos? Welcome to the world of "thing entropy" – where we explore how our physical stuff naturally gravitates toward disorder, and why maintaining order requires constant effort.

Love Creates Hate, and Hate Creates Love: The Paradox of Connection

The strongest bonds between people inevitably create the deepest divisions. This isn’t a flaw in human nature—it’s a fundamental pattern shaping everything from intimate relationships to political movements. Like magnetic forces that both attract and repel, love and hate together sculpt the architecture of human connection. Can we explore this phenomenon on a fundamental level, as one might a Theory of Everything, like that of Wolfram?

Super control

He controlled almost everything. He controlled space —both Earth and Mars— and movement in space. He controlled movement on —and below—Earth. He controlled the wireless frequencies. He controlled electricity. He controlled robots. He controlled computation. He controlled people's brains.

Distributed Super Intelligence

Stabilizing systems to yield aligned Artificial Super Intelligence

tldr;

  • AGI is already here in the form of human-computer computation networks that we call Distributed General Intelligence, DGI.
  • DGI can seen in organizations of sufficient scale, complexity, and quality.
  • DGI can become a Distributed Super Intelligence, DSI, through automated information processing and understanding.
  • DGI and DSI work competitively and collaboratively and are fundamentally grounded in physical reality.
  • To ensure that Artificial Super Intelligence grows in alignment with humanity and the planet, we need to explicitly create compartmentalization, oversight, and governance to enable competitive DSI.