Post #2135679
2026-05-05 20:03 UTC
A distant civilization travels to earth and lands a ship, they have never developed an alphabet, numbers are a foreign concept to them, the pen-n-paper game sprouts is the most competitive activity in their homeworld, the ship's computer is programmed entirely with drawings.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/interaction_nets.html
Replies (5)
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@lhp@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 20:22
@neauoire@merveilles.town sounds like a Lem book
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@aartaka@merveilles.town 2026-05-05 20:27
@neauoire@merveilles.town this reminds me of a Stephen Wolfram’s story about aliens using cellular automata for computation / thinking. I think it might be https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/06/alien-intelligence-and-the-concept-of-technology/
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@jimfl@hachyderm.io 2026-05-05 22:01
@neauoire@merveilles.town I really need to re-think my quick and dirty filter for $(whatever)maxxing, which filters anything that has a link to xxiivv in it
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@maxime_andre@mastodon.xyz 2026-05-06 11:06
@neauoire@merveilles.town how do you draw your interaction nets ? i'm asking because when you want to see the reductions to debug them, it's a little bit of a pain 🥴
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@apfel@ruhr.social 2026-05-06 11:42
@neauoire@merveilles.town ok who's writing the editor and wm