Space Chimp
@spacechimplives.bsky.social
A dad trying to use information theory & cognitive science to figure out how to give people a voice, through a theory of institutions. https://spacechimplives.substack.com/
Mechanisms as types: active inference for physics.. someone please give me money to make this happen: spacechimplives.substack.com/p/mechanisms...
Mechanisms as Types
Physical systems have a direct correspondence to types
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December 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Mechanisms as types: active inference for physics.. someone please give me money to make this happen: spacechimplives.substack.com/p/mechanisms...
what does a modern distributist society look like? spacechimplives.substack.com/p/what-does-...
What does a distributist society look like?
How to move on from what’s not working
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September 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
what does a modern distributist society look like? spacechimplives.substack.com/p/what-does-...
How systems become symbolic: open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
Cycles, Persistence, and Categories
How systems become symbolic
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September 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How systems become symbolic: open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
Is the energy of observation the same as the energy of constraint? open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
How much energy does it take to learn?
Energy of constraint => Energy of acquiring information
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August 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Is the energy of observation the same as the energy of constraint? open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
How institutions learned to think: open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
How institutions learned to talk
Category theory, cognitive linguistics and why llm’s aren’t conscious
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June 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
How institutions learned to think: open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
Computing with geometry?
Representing programs as matrices
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June 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Forms of collective consciousness spacechimplives.substack.com/p/forms-of-c...
Forms of collective consciousness
Free energy principle & shared knowledge
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May 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Forms of collective consciousness spacechimplives.substack.com/p/forms-of-c...
A bridge between kinetics and information theory? open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
A Bridge between kinetics and information theory?
Observations, Energy, Action, and Entropy
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April 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A bridge between kinetics and information theory? open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
No, the universe is probably not a computation: open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
No, the universe is probably not a computation
But our process of investigating it is, so computation will be reflected in the laws of physics
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March 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
No, the universe is probably not a computation: open.substack.com/pub/spacechi...
Using distributed computing concepts to illustrate how our conception of consciousness could emerge from metaphor
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Distributed computation, metaphor, enculturation, and consciousness
How enculturation bootstraps consciousness through metaphor, resulting in society as a distributed computer
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March 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Using distributed computing concepts to illustrate how our conception of consciousness could emerge from metaphor
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LLM's and Human language as a distributed systems protocol
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LLM's and Human language as a distributed systems protocol
how human language helps us maintain a shared state graph
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February 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
LLM's and Human language as a distributed systems protocol
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Re: Biden’s pardon - Relying on a father to put some sort of abstract ideological principle that voters don’t even appear to care about over the freedom of his son in order to enforce norms is probably the worst possible way to go about enforcing any norm. substack.com/@spacechimpl...
Space Chimp Lives on Substack
I think it’s a law of nature that relying on guilt, shame, and good faith to enforce norms results in the shameless, sociopaths and bad faith actors accruing the most power and influence.
This also...
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December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Re: Biden’s pardon - Relying on a father to put some sort of abstract ideological principle that voters don’t even appear to care about over the freedom of his son in order to enforce norms is probably the worst possible way to go about enforcing any norm. substack.com/@spacechimpl...
