Top all-time · #22607
Space Chimp Lives
Personal blog · spacechimplives.substack.comsciencephilosophy
Space Chimp Lives writes Space chimp life, a personal blog at spacechimplives.substack.com about science and philosophy. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Institutions as Emergent Computational Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Exploring the physics of society and human behavior. Launched 4 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Institutions as Emergent Computational Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-23
What Hacker News says?
This seems like a great resource for referencing the various definitions. I've tried my hand at developing an intuitive understanding: https://spacechimplives.substack.com/p/observers-and-entropy . TLDR - it's an artifact of the model we're using. In the thermodynamic definition, the energy accounted for in the terms of our model is information. The energy that's not is entropic energy. Hence why it's not "useable"…
Comment linking /p/observers-and-entropy
on “What Is Entropy?”Submitted Mutual Constraint as Internal Energy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mechanisms as Types as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Institutions as Emergent Computational Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Institutions as Emergent Computational Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mutual constraint as internal energy (more thoroughly explained) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping the Analogy of Institutions as Organisms as a story · 1 points
HN discussion