mirrorandloom
Community for @hyp 2025 writing project, "The Mirror and the Loom." About how recursive pattern recognition explains all sorts of phenomena across biology, cognition, economics and much more. Access to early drafts and some other goodies here.
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One thing that gets me about the world is just how different the space and time scales of different organism is. bacteria do thousands of minute actions a second.
Our individual neurons are necessarily working at a much faster timescale than our conscious perception is.
Elite performance is driven by this. When trying to perform in real time, conscious thought almost always gets in the way. It's too slow.
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This is the counterintuitive thing that most physicists get wrong.
Statues are unlikely, yes, but they are just as unlikely as any other specific state/configuration. What is different is our ability to recognize statues from piles of rocks.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xZdpg-7J7u4?si=j3ZJI7PuFe-IKJSR
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We are still trying to figure out where this reality is, independent of an observer.
https://youtu.be/13S9wEIRsfA?si=emH3QksQuDsa9Mw-
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Repost of Number 2 in the series with some minor updates. Number 3, "Reality is Too Much" is coming tomorrow... Constraints are the Mother of Perspective
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Revamping my writing that I started over a year ago, found an audience!
The next few months and getting it all out for an actual audience. Much more to come. Post 1 of 10-12.
A New Observer Paradox
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“We have found a strange footprint, and lo it is our own.”
https://youtube.com/shorts/khflo75pbDo?si=9evBZVlJKgtAMS5k
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Always important, we call it perception... https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/12/observer-theory/
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The question of “ is the universe a simulation?” has long been moot for me because it hardly matters… if all you ever have access to is the very simulation that you yourself are running.
The essence of the mirror (the view) and the loom (the weaving of the simulation)
https://youtu.be/KOV7UhwzNrk?si=amorqHKOrO0H_ADu
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This will only get worse as agentic and human content mix. Agents and humans sharing accounts over a broad range of interactions.
Personality extensions.
“Hey agent, my girlfriend is mad, can you calm her down but in my voice?”
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Claude on metaphorical abilities:
"When AI produces "novel" cross-disciplinary metaphors, they're typically remixing known mappings (applying network theory to social systems, thermodynamics to machine learning optimization). The quality degrades sharply when asked to construct genuinely original formal correspondences between previously unconnected fields.
The constraint isn't metaphorical thinking per se—it's the lack of ground truth feedback that would validate whether a new abstraction reveals something mathematically or empirically true versus merely linguistically coherent."
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