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Has anyone critically examined Michael Levin's sorting algorithm claims?

After hearing Michael Levin on Lex Fridman and Tim Ferriss, I was genuinely blown away by his claim that deterministic sorting algorithms exhibit emergent clustering behavior — that similar algorithms spontaneously group together in chimeric arrays. He frames this as discovering "free compute" and evidence of basal intelligence in minimal systems.Then I listened to Brett Hall's critique on...

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I like Musk's lens: the sun is 99.8% of the galaxy's total mass and over 99.99% of its energy production. Pretty straight-forward where you want to be getting your energy from.
Re: on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:23PM (#46640903)
How long will it take for them to send the PetaBox to space?

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