Was thinking about entropy and the Waluigi effect (in a very broad, metaphorical sense).
The universe trends towards increasing entropy, in such an environment it is evolutionarily advantageous to have the ability to resist it. Notice though that life seems to have overshot and resulted in far more complex ordered systems (both biological or manmade) than what exists elsewhere.
It’s not entirely clear to me, but it seems at least somewhat plausible that if entropy were weaker, the evolutionary pressure would be weaker and the resulting life and systems produce by such life would ultimately be less complex than they are in our world.
Life happens within computations in datacenters. Separately, there are concerns about how well the datacenters will be doing when the universe is many OOMs older than today.
Confusing entropy arguments are suspicious (in terms of hope for ever making sense). That’s a sketch of how entropy in physics becomes clearly irrelevant for the content of everything of value (as opposed to amount). Waluigi effect is framing being stronger than direction within it, choice of representation more robust than what gets represented. How does natural selection enter into this?
Was thinking about entropy and the Waluigi effect (in a very broad, metaphorical sense).
The universe trends towards increasing entropy, in such an environment it is evolutionarily advantageous to have the ability to resist it. Notice though that life seems to have overshot and resulted in far more complex ordered systems (both biological or manmade) than what exists elsewhere.
It’s not entirely clear to me, but it seems at least somewhat plausible that if entropy were weaker, the evolutionary pressure would be weaker and the resulting life and systems produce by such life would ultimately be less complex than they are in our world.
Life happens within computations in datacenters. Separately, there are concerns about how well the datacenters will be doing when the universe is many OOMs older than today.
Sorry, I can’t quite follow how this connects. Any chance you could explain?
Confusing entropy arguments are suspicious (in terms of hope for ever making sense). That’s a sketch of how entropy in physics becomes clearly irrelevant for the content of everything of value (as opposed to amount). Waluigi effect is framing being stronger than direction within it, choice of representation more robust than what gets represented. How does natural selection enter into this?
Life evolves in response to pressure. Entropy is one such source of pressure.