BlockP

🤔 💭 thinkin’ ‘bout… parsing proceedings; assembly theory;

[BlockP @aught_work]

There seems to be an underlying paradox between fiction and non-fiction, whereas the latter is a mere recounting of truth and open to mis-interpretations/representations. Fiction branches to a new reality with each reader as nuance and details are mapped from personal experience.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Literature is not untrue, but a higher form of truth

few understand this

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

If you really want to come up with genuinely ground breaking paradigm shifting ideas in science you need to be as gullible as you are critical.

[Guy @nosilverv]

He just… just dropped the best explanation of emptiness I've ever seen, just like that.

(Whole thread is one of the best I've seen too.)

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

@kudkudakpl @MoleculeOne @OpenAI Actually two fully autonomous examples are here https://t.co/UKtbhxknio and https://t.co/OTsoAjFY2L Even chat GPT knows this … 😂

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

Shallow new is not novel. Depth is everything.

[BlockP @aught_work]

In this sense, time is a causal chain of particles measured or not measured, of actions done or not done, of atoms bonded or not bonded.

[BlockP @aught_work]

I’m just a layman, but I’ve been thinking about this a bit— if the fundamental unit of assembly is a bond, the fundamental unit of free will is choice. https://t.co/koIsTammNP

[BlockP @aught_work]

A “choice” feels like it lives in the present, but it can only be described using the past or future. In the present, choice reduces to binary states: Either spin is measured or it is not. Either position is measured or it is not.

[David Perell @david_perell]

People stopped liking poetry because we got too good at teaching it.

For thousands of years, poetry was central to education and people loved it because we were so bad at teaching it. Then came a group called the New Critics in the 1920s who figured out how to analyze poetry. For the first time in history, poetry was taught right and it killed the audience.

How was poetry taught before? You memorized it. You recited it. You sang it. And you didn't teach poetry as something that needed to be understood via analysis.

The best way to teach poetry is like this: experience it, perform it, memorize it. Once you've done that, then you can do the analysis. But analysis is secondary to what poetry is.

We don't make people analyze pop songs before they fall in love with them, so why do we do that for poetry?

— @DanaGioiaPoet

[George Mack @george__mack]

The high agency triangle

Via @JTPO

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

My most recent map frame for my home office

[BlockP @aught_work]

Perfect example of how #assemblytheory can be used to distinguish between materials made via a natural process vs an industrial process.

[George Mack @george__mack]

How to increase agency *and* have fun:

Get a giant whiteboard in your home.

[BlockP @aught_work]

In the wake of slop, blockchain is the answer to verification and authenticity.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

When you read content on X, you should be able to verify its authenticity. This is critical to getting a pulse on important issues happening in the world.

As part of that, we're experimenting with displaying new information on profiles, including which country an account is based, among other details.

Starting next week, we will surface this on a handful of profiles of X team members to get feedback.

[BlockP @aught_work]

“Without an abstraction layer, every new target requires new hardware, new engineering and often new teams…”

Seems true for any field ripe for innovation. What is ahead is very exciting.

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

Here I write about the urgent need for chemputation or programmable chemistry for the future of chemistry. https://t.co/okPFfdVOp9

[BlockP @aught_work]

Think in’ ‘bout how this is entirely accurate but neglects the ever diminishing of the great-to-slop ratio

@Casey had a great video recently explaining this

[weber @weberwongwong]

two sides of the same coin

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Not sure how to communicate this:

We do *not* live on a smooth 4 dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold.

There would be no double slit experiment if we did.

That manifold would have irremovable singularities if we did. And that would mean it wasn’t a manifold.

Etc.

Wake up.

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

The way you think about the exponential function is wrong.

Don't think so? I'll convince you. Did you realize that multiplying e by itself π times doesn't make sense?

Here is what's really behind the most important function of all time:

[BlockP @aught_work]

The former implies things were uncovered, having been covered at the foundation of the world. These things were part of the foundation.

Conversely, the latter implies that things were uncovered, having been covered and as to not play a role in the foundation of the world.

[BlockP @aught_work]

Thinking’ ‘bout the difference between “since” and “from”….

More specifically, Girard’s title: “Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World”

vs

Matthew 13:35 (KJV): “…I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”