Episode Details

Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: Lux, here's a question that kept me up. Can a clock tick perfectly — forward, backward, every beat on time — and still have no arrow of time?

Episode at a glance

• Theme: Time, clocks & arrows
• Format: Case study
• Paper: NT

Source anchors

• NT §3.1 The three ingredients: order, measure, and arrow (label: eq:macro-successor)
• NT §3.2 Two arrows: causation-time vs enablement-time
• NT §9 Discussion and conclusion (label: sec:discussion)
• SB §5.1 Idempotent endomaps (label: sec:idempotent-endo)
• TH §2 Dictionary: from six birds to agency (label: sec:dictionary)
• WK §5.2 Limitations (what is not established) (label: sec:discussion:limits)