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   json web tokin' (est@social.emily.news)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 23:55:12 JST json web tokin'

   cannot believe that we taught rocks to whisper Secret Numbers so vast that their names have never before and will never be spoken again in the long span of human time, and we use them to key databases for e-commerce systems

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     json web tokin' (est@social.emily.news)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 23:56:15 JST json web tokin'

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     anyways your dildo order has one of the Nine Billion Names of God attached to it somewhere

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 09:59:55 JST mcc

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     @est Earth would have to be using up, by now, as much Information in (in this thought experiment) entire galaxy clusters, just to store all our encryption keys and all the hashes of git repositories and "blockchains" derived from those encryption keys. And we're *not stopping*. Creating this out-of-control, ever growing black hole of k-entropy, dwarfing (from the simulation algorithm's perspective) the simple mechanistic universe that birthed us.

     What happens when the hard drive runs out? (3/3)

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 09:59:56 JST mcc

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     @est Imagine the world is a simulation in a great computer, like the VCs say. Never mind if that's plausible, just consider what the implications would be. This world is very complex, so a simulation would have to use enormous quantities of lossless compression; each thing would have to be represented by an encoding at its lowest k-information bound. We can assume a simulator would be unlimited in time (time exists *within* the simulation), but would necessarily be limited in space. (1/2)

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 09:59:56 JST mcc

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     @est Most of the universe would have a very low k-information, because there would be entire planets you don't need to store anything but initial velocities from circa the big bang to calculate their present.

     But then there's this one planet in one galaxy. And some non-k-complex meat creatures are filling up databases with random numbers. *True* random numbers, increasingly, when hardware RNG seeds use quantum effects. *Saving* them, as if there were no consequences to doing so. (2/3)

     Matthew Lyon repeated this.