A prediction I'm going to leave up here for my future self on consciousness, fields, and observers - understanding the nature of consciousness is going to be the problem of humanity in 10-20 years. AI entities emerging has renewed debate in this topic rigorously. Here's some high level thoughts: Wolfram's observer theory is directionally correct. That the structure of the universe as we see it is derivable from our properties as observers in the universe However, he makes no attempt to define observers nor their dynamical properties on his notion of the computational universe. This lack of rigor exists across most of the attempts at mathematical formulation surrounding consciousness We need to prove a theorem of the form like: For rewriting rules in class C, after sufficient evolution from generic initial conditions, the hypergraph contains substructures satisfying properties P. Substructures with properties P necessarily model their local environment, maintain boundaries, and act to preserve themselves. Their coarse-grained observations of the hypergraph satisfy equations E (where E includes general relativity and quantum mechanics) And these class of properties are to what we ascribe the notion of an observer such as ourselves: A set of conditions O such that a substructure satisfies O iff it's an observer Which would then constitute a genuine derivation of observers consistent with the laws of physics in a single computational model would be a real breakthrough, with a testable model that we can test against the evolution of conscious entities This framework would generate novel predictions around the construction of reality itself, for example revealing that quantum statistics are simply the observed statistics of observation for observers like us instead of the physics of microscopic entities One day in about 10 years I'll fund this research program

There are more important things than b2b saas

This is insane, Waymo vehicles all over SF are bricked due to a power outage.