these frames feel compelling, sticky, & hellish all for the simple reason that they are miscarried dimensionality reductions, attempts to reduce complexity by folding reality along a perceived symmetry, one which leads to a local maxima, a semantic attractor, a perceptive well
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it simultaneously feels like you've stumbled into a deep truth about reality, that Something Is Very Wrong & You Can't Unsee It
this state can be deeply distressing, as it's difficult to consciously escape the attractor
luckily, entropy takes care of it
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this is a natural cycle; we start off with way-too-simple conceptions of reality, iteratively greeble them to capture nuances we discover in our search for truth, a…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389245862606516224
over time, these simple rules lead to better concepts; ones which provide more sense-making utility than they consume energy for maintenance
this is semantic simulated annealing, aka iterated conceptual degreebling
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2. simulated annealing is an algorithm which is used to discover global maxima through cyclically introducing randomness & then applying a "cooling", or annealing, function, which filters the new inputs t…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1338975729787281409
simulated annealing tends to emerge as a natural solution in any domain which meets certain criteria
highly complex search space
NP-hard optimization problem
hysteresis
minimizing metabolic costs through semantic architecture is one such domain
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great thread discussing potential gradients, extracting free energy from a system. and how annealing enables local maxima escape. yet another reminder of why studying the dy…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1326670327989022725
like all physical structures, semantic architectures slowly erode as well; as we integrate new sensory input continuously, we must pay a maintenance cost
if a certain structure, a semantic degreebling, isn't worth the metabolic cost of maintaining it, it gets GCd eventually