I replied on discord that I feel there’s maybe something more formalisable that’s like:
reality runs on math because, and is the same thing as, there’s a generalised-state-transition function
because reality has a notion of what happens next, realityfluid has to give you a notion of what happens next, i.e. it normalises
the idea of a realityfluid that doesn’t normalise only comes to mind at all because you learned about R^n first in elementary school instead of S^n
which I do not claim confidently because I haven’t actually generated that formalisation, and am posting here because maybe there will be another Lesswronger’s eyes on it that’s like “ah, but...”.
Many mechanisms of aggregation literally normalize random elements. Simple addition of two (or more) evenly-distributed linear values (say, dice) yields a normal distribution (aka bell curve).
And yes, human experience is all map—the actual state of the universe is imperceptible.
(Epistemic status: Not quite sure)
Realityfluid must normalize for utility functions to work (see 1, 2). But this is a property of the map, not the territory.
Normalizing realityfluid is a way to point to an actual (countably) infinite territory using a finite (conserved-mass) map object.
I replied on discord that I feel there’s maybe something more formalisable that’s like:
reality runs on math because, and is the same thing as, there’s a generalised-state-transition function
because reality has a notion of what happens next, realityfluid has to give you a notion of what happens next, i.e. it normalises
the idea of a realityfluid that doesn’t normalise only comes to mind at all because you learned about R^n first in elementary school instead of S^n
which I do not claim confidently because I haven’t actually generated that formalisation, and am posting here because maybe there will be another Lesswronger’s eyes on it that’s like “ah, but...”.
Many mechanisms of aggregation literally normalize random elements. Simple addition of two (or more) evenly-distributed linear values (say, dice) yields a normal distribution (aka bell curve).
And yes, human experience is all map—the actual state of the universe is imperceptible.