Episode Details

Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [leaning in] Hex, imagine a card game. You shuffle a deck and start dealing. After each hand, you know who had what. There's a clear ordering — hand one, hand two, hand three. That's your successor structure. You can also count the deals. That's your tick.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Time (order, ticks, arrow)
• Format: Story
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: NT

Source anchors

• NT §3.1 The three ingredients: order, measure, and arrow
• NT §9 Discussion and conclusion
• SB §10.1 Definitions of P1--P6
• WK §4.2 Separable drive (P6)
• SB §1 Introduction