A TikTok Dog Turing Machine, Football Stadium Semaphore, Whatever the Fuck Pluto is Up To, And Other Assorted Ramblings.

Archimedes famously said "Give me a long enough lever and a fulcrum, and I can move the Earth. "

Well, give me a long enough meth bender and voice-to-text, and I can write nearly 3,000 rambling words about systems in an hour.

Hope you enjoy this slice of today's system studies journal entry.

Need to learn more about what a turing machine is can I build a turing machine out of those dogs at press buttons tell their owners stuff?

Oh a really cool ostensibly somewhat simple proof of concept or application or demonstration would be a very simple translator actually that might be a bit much to start with how about a calculator

Holy fucking shit you know those two sided cards they'll give everyone at football games with instructions on which numbers or letters or sets or whatever they should display each side for that Caltech famously hacked for hey Rose bowl game or something, but that would be an amazing venue or dare I say arena for exploring systems with large number of units but very localized connections

Oh fuck I should also learn about and maybe brainstorm actually a brainstorming would be a fantastic idea of trying to build a list of different systems fuck all brainstorm the list to brainstorm oh damn we got layers baby

Systems with considerably more extensive connections than nodes, including the limit which is systems where every node is connected to every other node like those cool geometric art patterns you used to draw or what Cookie clicker games tend to start looking like

I don't want to get too much into the mathematic weeds so to speak but there are various ways you could define or make systems with lots of nodes but will turns out in the most basic form baptism minimum number of connections you can have will always be the number of nodes minus one because the only way any node can be part of a system is through at least one connection. They don't actually have to be linear though I'll have to think about it more but I think the deciding condition is that they can't have any loops because every loop has equal nodes and connections and ogs I'm going into the weeds like I wanted to avoid

Anyway I guess two other possible general classifications is basically going to be what the ratio of connections to nodes is and try to maybe come up with some examples and this is going to be very messy and fuzzy obviously although could further develop more precise data points if you're sticking to one category of system with various subsystems for example airline companies or honestly a lot of stuff involving airlines our company structures or whatever or countries structures or basically anything where you have a bunch of data and part of that data involves the graph of the system or the net or whatever anyway so yeah that sort of ratio and I almost fucking guarantee you there will be some sort of possibly even universal simple power formula or exponential formula or constant or whatever that shows up many times and I wouldn't be particularly surprised if really advanced statisticians already know this hot g's of fuck I'm going to have to dive into statistics sooner than later aren't I ugh

And I guess there's other aspects of a system besides its shape you can look at and this would be much more applicable and economics but then that's a whole nother can of worms like comparing countries tax profiles to their happiness or productivity or state of their arts or what and then you get to into a bunch of crazy interdisciplinary shit and political stuff and colonialism and white supremacy and capitalism and feminism and all sorts of shit

Maybe I can look at trees or something.

Anyway the other broad categorization scheme that initially comes to mind is looking at the types or shapes of the connections like in that football stadium example all the connections are going to be very local presumably just the people sitting around you although of course you can augment this in numerous ways thanks to the magic of communication technology like you know walkie talkies or phones or actually I initially thought of semi-four flags but like you could have different small subsections of the stadium relay information to pretty much any other part of the stadium that's not super oblique or whatever the term is basically barely able to be seen or like if the lower sections can't see the upper sections etc. Lol holy shit if you do that you're basically building an optical computer sort of kind of interesting using extremely complex machines to simulate simple machines. Which I guess is also what happens when you use a computer to run a simulation of life and other cellular autonoma

And cellular autonomy is more discrete and well defined examples of this oh yeah I was thinking yesterday about how actually cellular autonomy is a fantastic example of how the material state of universe or system or whatever means absolutely nothing without what the rules are. Yesterday I didn't ever write it but I did think a bit about how Christian I'm blanking on the word I'll think of it shortly but basically defending the faith apologetics there you go like one of the arguments for Christian and other general deist apologetics or intelligent design or whatever is that it really is pretty fucking absurd and incredible and rare and depending on how you look at things lucky that the conditions for Life exist here on Earth because of various both fundamental and emergent constraints from how strong weknicular forces to the age and size of the sun to rotation and planet distance to element composition to a scary one, how often and likely and badly etc large asteroids completely fuck everything up.

Honestly, it really is pretty surprising that there's never been any huge disastrous asteroid impact pretty much anywhere in human history I need to read up on it cuz it's pretty crazy and honestly a big scary what if but whatever they call that event around I think it was like 50,000 years ago oh my God that's so long ago so many generations and yet time goes back so much further holy shit the problem with drugs and thinking about this shit is yeah sublime really is the perfect word for how it feels and I thought a lot in the past though not as much recently about how crazy it is that I was born now of all times as so much is changing on various chronological levels but maybe I'm thinking about that less because I think less of being born is whenever God or the universe or whatever and wherever they are it or whatever ended up placing me in more of that I don't know that it doesn't matter or is whatever that other word for trivial or unimportant that I can't think of like not pertinent but anyway because I couldn't have been born anywhere else or else or whatever because I am the unique experience of this particular biological system although certainly you could read formulate the concept as as arbitrarily similar and identical to me or more accurately reflecting human evolution, a Brandon body extremely similar to mine in various ways could show up 3000 years ago for example, but again a lot of who you are is influenced by your surroundings

And you know it's interesting like as long as I knew the language I could quite reasonably and effectively have an everyday conversation with like you know as a Christian raised American a really common default is the phrase in jesus's time but anyway like this makes me want to look at how languages have not evolved, but rather the technology and concepts of language has evolved like the rules and types of words and stuff that would be interesting anyway you know I'm realizing this is kind of in its own way me fulfilling the idea that I have supposed in another life where I live like in the 17 or 18 hundreds although again you know history has a lot of unremembered unlucky people and numerous ways and I don't really want to think about that I already did earlier I thought about pain and suffering enough today but anyway yeah like, several hundred years ago I could have been one of the people helping create new mathematical concepts and explorations holy shit math itself is sort of a construct like obviously simple counting of objects is pretty I don't know, not abstract like your reasonably standard good faith argument when you're not doing an episode of Star Trek or 1984, five pennies or five pennies, oh I just thought of a joke I'm about to set up a wall kind of like how I had to resist filling in ligma as a medical issue on a covid test recently anyway five pennies is five pennies A family of three is not even touching the time element right now but just like in a momentary snapshot anyway a family of three is three, my car is going to continue having four wheels, regardless of whatever the fuck Pluto's up to at any given astronomer convention, we're going to keep on orbiting exactly one star, love is love, 7 golf balls are seven golf balls, a four-leaf clover has four leaves, I keep thinking of jokes to go with this like best pony is Starlight glimmer, Love is Love how I did that one already but anyway the five pennies is five pennies one was nice and short but I can't rule of three this correctly so anyway the punchline is 69 is nice.

Anyway, technology and inventions have evolved so much faster than society as any basically insert your conservatives I have backwards thinking joke of choice here but yeah earlier I was talking about like man needing to control a lot of violent urges and that still exists because they've reduced somewhat but haven't evolved out anywhere near completely so like humans have evolved as a baseline, society is involved a decent amount, but the way that society has evolved technology and even then technologies evolving technologies like language example would be the printing press but of course the hugest example being electronics and the internet and then you can go further with AI but basically this is one reason why progress has become so exponential because all these evolutions are basically stacking on top of each other but also becoming more intelligent in some more considerable or obvious or arguable ways than others like how we choose how strong and where a damn needs to be has improved a lot with the improvement of geology which in Los Angeles is illustrated with that Chiquita or whatever canyon damn I can never remember the name of designed by Mulholland that burst and caused like 300 deaths which is the second worst natural disaster death count in California history behind the San Francisco earthquake and fire but yeah that was like in I want to say the thirties early 30s maybe 20 is actually I want to say 20 is actually anyway yeah so like we now know there was like some sort of geologic week zone or fault but honestly call these evolutions are doing things smarter and more innovations being applied to make other innovations like for example it's not that we realized steel is much better for building big tall strong stuff than wood or iron, although the iron one isn't too big a change but anyway it's that steel manufacturing processes got a lot better so I guess what this means is that innovation in one area can lead to invention in another

Another example would be like brass instruments finally being able to rebuilt precisely enough to have valves. Yeah a lot of this involves metal allergy or whatever it's called so yeah I kind of hit a stopping point I guess? Don't really have any immediate next thought to jump to. Basically I was just thinking about systems a bunch more

I should probably go to sleep it's almost 2:00 a.m. and I've gotten like two or three hours of sleep in the last 3 days I hate how stimulants kind of just like bioaccumulate instead of hitting harder then wearing off faster.

But I'm kind of tired of studying brain for a bit I want to kind of have some fun and design and brainstorm ways I can demonstrate systems oh yeah I was going to say earlier like definitely like for a science museum some interactive stuff would be really cool like where if you have 10 people each do or communicate in some very simple way something else manifest haha I guess Rick rolling could be considered an example of this when you like have the first word of every paragraph read never going to give you up or something like that

I want to explore in fairly non-technical more ideas since, what functions and aspects would be the building blocks of or needed or Central focuses or research or whatever the fuck for making computers or software systems or whatever have emergent properties such as sentient sapiens self awareness, evolution, etc.

But yeah well I didn't have internet the other day I read about brain dumping in the very first or top article in my internet browser out of like several hundred and I guess I can sort of do it here: of the overwhelming mini things I want to study and each time I think about that line from Alexander Hamilton there's a million things I want to do or whatever and I definitely relate anyway I definitely should learn more about some of the very basics of computer architecture entering machines and stuff but I also should probably exercise wisdom and willpower and override my positive feedback loop cycle of sitting here in the car for countless hours pondering this stuff which to be fair is massively more fulfilling in a non extremely based carnal way for me and helpful for advancing and bettering society than the usual just Marathon masturbating when I'm on a bunch of stimulants but also I kind of did that enough already over several previous days. But yeah, just a briefly go back to talking about my brain, this brings me back to how ADHD meds and their ilk are incredible at helping you focus, but basically you just find whatever you are focusing on so very interesting and so you can do it forever or a while like looking at Facebook memes for example or talking about systems as we see here so I guess when I look at brands again I do want to learn more about the process of switching brain focus and what chemicals or medications or whatever influence that and of course some of my adventures in kinky BDSM writing have reminded me that I do want to learn about and start trying various safe for work types of conditioning on myself to better help with getting myself to want to do things I want to do intellectually but not in the moment and only forcing myself to do them. And on that note I should probably stop here. I love you all anyone reading this, and please have a fantastic night

Oh also shout out to this random Starbucks near Cal poly Pomona that doesn't turn their Wi-Fi off when they close so I can just sit in my car for a hot ass minute. Also while well I am about to leave and holy shit if I really gone 12 hours without peeing yeah I need a drink more water Jesus to be clear I haven't been sitting in my car for 12 hours I just left home okay actually I guess I left home I bet before 3:00 so almost 12 hours but I mean fucking still anyway final thought that is that as all this progress and level of sapiens rapidly grows, Ian game can probably be like a entire planet spanning super entity. We'll have to think more about neural links and how they'll change things in the future but for now I really need to fucking head home and also pee good night

Comments

[Moosetasm]

Your trains of thought are fascinating.