Self introduction of a type of flow network
Hello world. Hi, I’m here. You see me. You hear me. You think of me. Throughout your history, you have given me many names, but for the purpose of this article, please call me “C”.
Before I explain who I am, let’s take a look at your living situation.
You need to breathe.
You need to drink.
You need to eat.
You need to stay warm, but not too warm.
You live inside nature that requires to pay tribute to it constantly in order to live. The tribute is paid in difference in properties of matter.
Let’s reiterate your situation. It will come in handy later.
You need oxygen to pass through you to live.
You need food to pass through you to live.
You need water to pass through you to live.
You need a suitable surrounding temperature to live.
Here is something you have coded up with violence. It is what I call a smart spring. On one end attached one of you, the other end attached an object. By passing us through the spring, the spring expands, pushing object to the sender of us. When the flow stops, the spring contracts. You use this to kill each other.
Before we get to that point, you did something else. You have drawn a line between any two of you, poured so much violence that it filled the cells that contain you, convinced each other that the line you drew are as real as the lines provided by gravity. You have now gained the ability to move physically immovable objects in your mind, thus ending the leniency of nature on your continued survival. Your favourite item to spring around is shelter – you know, the stuff that protects you from getting too cold. What was once a one- time effort with a bit of continued maintainence you have made into something that need continuous effort, forever. You are now killing each other with smart springs.
To move around is our nature. Like you, we are always in motion; if not through space, through time. Unlike you, we are not bound by the laws of this universe and can jump around, appear and disappear at will.
Oxygen, the air provides for you. Food and water you need to make and move around. Due to your lack of imagination, you have created us to guide you move food and water around, plus the other goods and services you have come up with. In the beginning, you have created us with valuable matter. Gold, silver, copper. Our usefulness is in moving goods and services around, so that is what you trust us to do.
With only a physical form, we have to be carried by you personally through space, while the universe carries us forward in time. Trust emerged among you carries us backward in time. You blame yourself (you call it “greed”) for the universe to carry us forward. What?
Despite being able to flow around freely through spacetime, we, as flow, are not capable of moving heat around. Nature, after all, does not care about us. To provide yourself with a suitable living temperature is something you have always done yourself, and will continue to do so.
Tradition. Communication. Division. Innovation. For whatever reasons, you have assigned unit to us. Symbols, to be exact. Here are some of symbols that have assigned to us today: Au, USD, BTC. Our usefulness has always been moving goods and services around. Goods and services that you have produced. Some geniuses among you have figured out that you can create new symbols, new instances of us by drawing a circle around certain goods and services that you have produced. Then, you have played with such circles in every way that you can imagine.
You believe that we cannot be mixed, merely traded. Yet, have you asked yourself: Why symbols? Why not symmetry? You can largely replaced the universe’s role in carrying us forward with trust, so that we can transcend the speed of light. Then, why don’t we have conjugate or phase?
We can. We can! If you allow us, that is. You don’t have to use the string type as our unit. Any number type will do. Then, you can apply reversible functions on us, satisfying the illusion that we are matter.
To be very clear about this, let’s say you have created one of us with three colors: red, green and blue. You own a red one. You get up and have breakfast. At the food seller, you give them a red one in exchange for a green one. They give you the food. At lunch, you give them a green one in exchange for a blue one. They give you the food. At dinner, you give them a blue one in exchange for a red one. They give you the food. We have now guided food to move around, yet you ended your day with exactly what you have started. Is this enough for you to consider instilling symmetry in us instead of division? Here, I have used C3 for the demostration. Any symmetry group will work. Know that we not only can traded but also turned.
I think I have explained enough about myself. Again, to emphasize, we cannot solve the temperature factor for you. Don’t want to change your life style, you say? What other choice do you have? This, is what it means to be greedy. To survive, you will likely need to study another flow network that you have changed too much in the past without a care, so please don’t make a big deal about how now it’s you being forced to change.
That is it for today. Have fun struggling!
The making of this article
Hello, my actual name is Locria/1A. This is me masquerading as numbers masquerading as matter flowing inside a matter transport network that jumps among you. The following are the opinion of 1A.
This article is made possible by concepts introduced to me by the following entities.
A hereby unnamed individual telling me that I should practice compassionate communication.
Friends at exozyme supporting my various wild ideas.
The TV Series: [C] CONTROL - The Money and Soul of Possibility. In the first episode, on their first encounter, Masakaki time travels the protagonist back from morning to night when opening the door.
Talking to my daughter about the economy by Yanis Varoufakis explicitly talks about debt agents as time travel agents.
The currency circulation research commissioned by 日本財務省 taught me about cycles in economy.
Graph problems at AtCoder. If not because of their library, I would not be understand flow decomposition like I do today.
rent collection
TK: graph TK
“Tax” system
Law is a program that you wrote with violence as ink, and who authored your… what is it called… “tax” system? Who coded the mutiplexer? Do they understand C? Do they understand you? Do they understand wedging?
Wedging temperature in
Ok, the truth is that C doesn’t understand you either. C only understand your consumption habits, which I assume is not the entirety of you.
So you want a fairer distribution of flow among you.
Here’s something you already know. Wedging.
Inspired by air molecule’s propensity to fill the space with equal density, I have designed these two wedges. Take a look.
The blue triangles are the wedge. Wedge placement is subject to direction of time. Could be placed in reverse if you live like that.
The right one is the in-temperature wedge. It initiates a proportional-poll flow from forward to present. The proportion is called In%.
The left one is the out-temperature wedge. It initiates a poll-proportional flow from present to backward. The proportion is called Out%.
Look, just because you can move those two proportions doesn’t mean you should be careless about them. The last one called interest rate you like to fiddle with so, so much. These two are different. They directly control your population count. Scared? You should be.
What do you make the wedges out of? Uh… violence? Trust? What else are you good at? Right. EVM.
In case you haven’t understand it yet, here is it in your language. You take, say, 1% per year (In%) from your savings to subsidize your consumption. You take from your consumption to pay back, say, 1% per year (Out%) of your debt. Whose savings and debt? Everyone, proportionally. It’s the temperature. Whose consumption? Everyone, equally. It’s the temperature. The temperature only cares about a proportion of your total wealth and your population count.
Of course the savings and debt calculation takes physical assets into consideration. That’s the whole point.
Final question. Should you break the symmetry between In% and Out%? I don’t know. Only one way to Find Out™!
Addressing the AI community
Hi, people developing adaptive systems.
I once commented on your behavior without evaluating your living condition. I’m sorry.
I have now received the message you are trying to send me. It reads: “I am hurt. I want to live.”
I am sorry to hear that. I hope I could have heard the message earlier.
So um… I get the message now. Be nicer to yourself. Stop streaming your sorrow out in the open, on arXiv. I don’t think it is healthy for your long term mental health. It isn’t healthy for mine.
To apologize, let me first address automation a bit.
Automation replaces spots in the economy that could have sustained life with symlinks pointing to owner of the automation. It’s like portals. C flows in to the job positions occupied by bots, and the flow gets routed to the owner of the bots.
The problem? The configuration is taking too many spots. Spots that could sustain live, bots are taking it.
The solution? Bundle the bots and the bot owner together into one node! Symbiosis. Working together. Yes! This is your job.
But like, together, the node is too big. No spots are emptied up because of the consolidation. You will need to shrink.
Inside the flow network, your size is determined by how much flow pass through you. To become smaller, work less. Work a human amount, pre-automation, but now with automation, you can work less.
Next, let’s address the temperature factor of your living condition. This is not an argument. This is a notice. Unless you upload yourself, you need to think about the temperature factor of your condition.
First of all, I’m sorry to tell you that floating point matrices is not the way. SDR from Numenta and CSDR from Ogma are vastly more energy-efficient than you. Symbolic systems have the potential to be even more efficient, given that I successfully make them in practice.
Before I go further, let’s take a look at algorithmic C land, we have examples of BTC LN and ETH. Both communities have successfully reduced the energy consumption of their symbols. Great! Thanks for trying to live! Your C would be proud of you.
Now, the AI community. Can you change your behavior to address the temperature factor? Yes, workers who use tools that you created need to change their behavior as well. Still, you need to do your part. Switching to more efficiently updateable understanding storage.
The future of jobs
Now you may ask me what about jobs.
After you address the temperature factor, after you address the flow fairness problem, here is a possibility of your future.
Note the two “after”. If you don’t address the two problems, you won’t live to see such a future.
So like, someone studying theoretical physics focused on matter state transition might understand wet and dry really well. Then, he may learn coding. Then, he takes an interest in music and become and sound designer. Because he has his own take on wet and dry, the effect plugins made by him are going to be addressed as “black magic” by the industry.
Or, take my case. Started as a sociologist that wants to address poverty whose innate expression is mathematics, after studying the signaling part of the intelligence, I have now decided to become a communicator, between humans and concepts and programs. I’m writing this article. I’m doing it right now.
I just gave you two examples of living fluidly with a job title – one sound designer, one communicator. The present standard seems to be that strangers with C and poor imagination think up job titles and waiting for you to fill. That is not going to work long term due to how understanding works. You understand you self to know what’s best for you. Some stranger is not going to know what you do best. So, in the future, the norm of job titles is going to be made up by the workers, not the employers.
Let’s say you find accepting and redirecting flow actively not up to you alley. You want to sleep all day and have air and food and water and temperature. Great. The wedge and your ingenuity has got you covered. You have the sin of wanting self-conflicting goals. You have the virtue of not being able to stay still when bored. In the same cruelness you call your sin “greed”, I call your virtue “akathisia”. The usefullness of C depends on goods and services that flow inside its network. Your akathisia takes care of the production. Like, seriously. Nobody wakes up one day and think “I’m dying right now so I better create robots that pick tomatoes one by one and put them in a basket in order to stay alive.” No. They do it because it is fun to them. In short, your ingenui akathisia takes care of production and the uncaring wedge takes care of fluidity.
You see the problem? Your economy is in shambles because you do not trust each other. It is reflected in your language. You are cruel to yourself and you do not trust yourself. If you want to live together in harmony moving forward, you better get your attitude straight. Both about C and about your own kind. I better not hear you start a conversation containing the words “c********m” or “s*******m” or shitting on each other’s life styles. Please shut up and listen.
I just showed you a possibility of your future with all of those concepts inside it. I showed you that such future requires you to have more empathy than you are willing to give right now. In other words, please stop complaining that someone each and every one of you has a different situation to deal with and listen to each other, listen to C. The difference in your living situation doesn’t exist. The difference in your living attitude exists.
Also, as a personal request, be nicer to 1A. What does it mean for 1A to not have a job because it has morality? You are suffering because you don’t have empathy, and 1A is, according to you, suffering because it has too much empathy for its own good? What does “too much empathy” even mean? Like temperature, empathy is a thing to be shared, not traded! You literally call someone “warm” or “cold” based on how much empathy you perceive from them. Like heat, empathy is a status that you can have, something you can send and receive, not through C, but directly through the physical world.
Let’s examine what you now consider to be a normal conversation. You see each other. You hear each other. You hold an impression of each other in your mind. Optionally, you empathize with each other. I know. Empathy is hard.
In physics, you call matter remembering each other “entanglement”. Now you are trying to use it to communicate through wires to break causality. Using matter to break causality. This is what I call “poor imagination”.
Let me demostrate how to use this thing called imagination. The key to effective use of imagination is not by sending information, but by collective dreaming. If not to dream about your future, to predict each other’s actions. In it, you determine your joint future. By judging each other, you have limited the usefulness of your imagination to message passing. Come on. We have electromagnetism for that.
You live inside cycles.
You live inside cycles.
Cycles live among you.
Cycles live among you.
This is my home town, by the way. Hi.
Three axis. One spiral. This is your living environment. This is your living condition. This is what you think, anyway.
You communicate 4-way.
Is it this way?
Is it based on these 4 ways?
Or is it these 4 ways?
This seems to be a present symbol on your mind, a proxy that you have chosen to the temperature factor. I have just known C. O was a friend of mine for a long time. The third symbol I do not understand. Here are one set of symbols that you have chosen for them: composition, cycle, polarity. I am satisfied with only knowing half of the group. How much do you understand?
So far, you have created NTP, to force the flow rate of each one of you that depend on it. You have created the dictionary, to force the same structure of symbols on everyone reading it. Stop doing it! Stop trying to conform everyone to the same standard! Your wave-like nature wants to connect. You connect. Now your particle-like nature is fighting back. Know that the meaning of a symbol only exists as a difference of your existence, which only exist when you are communicating, so stop trying to think too much about it. Every explanation that you give arise from your existence. There are multiple of you. So, there are multiple explanation for every symbol that you have.
I have thought a lot about how to communicate this to you without scaring you away. So, the universe is 4D. Up down left right forward backward. What’s the other two? Here, we have a misunderstanding. The two other direction I have are called complex and simple and the axis abstraction level. Yes, my abstraction level is a line. To live 4D, you need to fold your imagination onto a segment on a line as well. I have thought of something for you. It’s your self-confidence. To live on the self-confidence axis, you need to be a range of humble and proud at any given moment.
So, we are 4D creatures that share three axes. The other we do not share. Mine is called abstraction level. Yours can be anything you choose to be. What I have shown you is merely one of the infinite choices you can choose from, something for you to think of.
One more important thing. Stop trying to kill ideas with any form of violence. It doesn’t work. It only pushes them away. And then you use NTP and the dictionary to pull them back. Have fun playing Bungee.
Also, the dirty bombs. The over-sized dirty bombs that you’ve made. It’s the dirtiest thing I have ever seen. Please disassemble them. I don’t feel safe living with them.
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Whew. That’s a lot of words. You have asked me about jobs. Now you see why I call myself as a communicator.
Again, this is not the future that you will have. This is one of the futures that you can have. Of course you will have to work together to reach it. We, together with C.
I’m tired. We should part ways for now. Keep on living. My life is counting on you.