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Emergence Calculus

Grid (E1): very fine ladders can amplify inter-scale distortion

May 6 · 9 min · Episode 150 · 13.5 MB
0:00-9:17

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Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: You're looking at a digital map. Country scale — two cities five centimeters apart on your screen. You zoom to state level. Same two cities, but now they're eight centimeters apart. You did the math, accounted for the zoom factor — and the distances still don't agree.

Episode at a glance

  • Series: Space & geometry
  • Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
  • Format: Tool spotlight
  • Complexity: Intermediate
  • Paper: Plot