Physical laws operate on individual particles or large numbers of them. This limits agents by allowing to give bounds on what is physically possible, e.g., growth no more than lightspeed and being subject to thermodynamics—in the limit. It doesn’t tell what happens dynamically in medium scales. And because agentic systems operate mostly in very dynamic medium scale regimes, I think asking for physics is not really helping.
I like to think that there is a systematic theory of all possible inventions. A theory that explores ways in which entropy is “directed”, such as in a Stirling machine or when energy is “stored”. Agents can steer local increase of entropy.
Research at the cutting edge is about going from these ‘gods eye view questions’ that somebody might entertain on an idle Sunday afternoon to a very specific refined technical set of questions.
Feedback wanted!
What are your thoughts on the following research question:
”What nontrivial physical laws or principles exist governing the behavior of agentic systems.”
(Very open to feedback along the lines of “hey that’s not really a research question”)
Physical laws operate on individual particles or large numbers of them. This limits agents by allowing to give bounds on what is physically possible, e.g., growth no more than lightspeed and being subject to thermodynamics—in the limit. It doesn’t tell what happens dynamically in medium scales. And because agentic systems operate mostly in very dynamic medium scale regimes, I think asking for physics is not really helping.
I like to think that there is a systematic theory of all possible inventions. A theory that explores ways in which entropy is “directed”, such as in a Stirling machine or when energy is “stored”. Agents can steer local increase of entropy.
Sounds good but very broad.
Research at the cutting edge is about going from these ‘gods eye view questions’ that somebody might entertain on an idle Sunday afternoon to a very specific refined technical set of questions.
What’s your inside track?