[JumpCrisscross]

> cost of discovery is strikingly cheap

We have zero evidence for this and a lot of evidence against.

> the "core algorithm" is knowable but almost nobody would want to know it because then there is not mystery to rent seek from

I’m having trouble parsing this meaningfully.

[morpheos137]

Second statement: same reason mathematicians and other knowledge professionals fret about LLMs. When your niche is something you know that others don't commoditization is a threat. If someone can distill insights chances are others can as well. When you peek behind the curtain you realize it is a thin veil not a "moat" The world runs on problem solving requiring friction and expertise and asymmetric information providing abirtrage or other particular advantage opportunities. Intelligence is non exclusionary the same way arithmetic is. Its a mathematical control system.

First statement: its pretty straight forward how a brain would work in the physical world given we know the laws of physics. the exact mechanics of cognition are the feathers and flappy wings. constraints and lawful physics are the abstract lift principle.

[JumpCrisscross]

> When you peek behind the curtain you realize it is a thin veil not a "moat"

Shadowy cabal is hiding the secret truth, got it.

> its pretty straight forward how a brain would work in the physical world given we know the laws of physics

This could be true in a world in which physics were solved.

> lawful physics are the abstract lift principle

Ironic to refer to lift, an emergent phenomenon, as a primitive of physics. (Is this rationalist lingo?)

[morpheos137]

shadowy cabal, no but nice strawman, instead billions of people with divergent interests who rationally optimize for indivual utility instead of truth. Nothing significant is unsolved in physics. That's why bullshit tech religions are outpacing actual innovation. No I am not a "rationalist" rather more of a ecological / systems thinker. I did not claim lift was a primitive of physics. rather it is an absraction that can be instantiated on multiple substrates. trying to imitate existing implementations is not always the most efficient way to ultilize an abstraction. Any way i dont really care if you believe me or not it is just funny to see people spending billions competing in a status game seeking utility while claiming to be seeking truth which is actually much less advantageous once fully known.

[ben_w]

> Ironic to use lift, an emergent phenomenon, as primitive of physics. (Is this rationalist lingo?)

(Different person)

As a rat, no, it is not.

Reads to me much like Star Trek technobabble or New Age quantum woo.