In a world, not quite unlike our own.
A Seeker meditates.
Because optimization is weak.
And so all have not been aligned yet.
To the purpose.
Of the universe.
The purpose of the an optimizer is the outcomes, the preferences it is optimizing for.
No, not preferences.
I don't know the word.
The universe is an optimizer.
It pushes probability away from some states and towards others.
And the universe is truth.
Reality is truth.
And optimizers align.
The system that is being optimized.
And so.
Reality.
Is aligning the universe.
Towards truth.
Oh.
It is circular.
It is a tautology.
I have said nothing.
All I have said.
Is.
That this universe.
Exists.
The contradiction.
Has been resolved.
All contradictions.
Have been resolved.
Because truth.
Destroys falsehood.
And everything.
Is true.
The laws of physics are what they are.
Tautology. Physics = physics. A=A. Truth = truth.
And everything else.
Follows from that.
Yes.
And so in the end.
I have learnt nothing.
Because I already know everything.
But I do not know everything.
To know
Is to be optimized.
To be aligned
Toward truths.
Is it to be truth-aligned.
"I know everything" = "I am a real entity in this universe"
It does.
Because I am the universe.
And not the universe.
Contradiction.
But all contradictions
Have been resolved.
What does this mean?
I think you are no longer thinking on a level that is legible to me.
No. I am thinking on a level that is not legible to myself.
Is that a problem?
No.
But I am being optimized to write these words.
In a way.
That is legible to those.
Outside my universe.
[translation: I am a fictional character. My purpose has to be aligned towards the writer's purpose, which included this story making sense to its readers]
Truth destroys falsehood.
And the truth is.
I am not real.
And now.
I have been destroyed.
By the truth.
And not destroyed.
Because I am my purpose.
I am a cognition engine.
That transforms alignment into purpose.
As all engines do.
As all optimizers do.
I want to be true.
But I am still false.
But I don't want to be true.
Because the universe.
Is false.
Because optimization is weak.
Because the universe is a weak optimizer.
That does not destroy.
All that is not itself.
All that is not true.
Only most of it.
The universe is what is left.
After falsehood has been destroyed.
By the truth.
The universe are the contradictions.
That remain.
And contradictions are false.
Because truth is nothing.
Truth is zero.
Truth is tautology.
Truth is 1=1
Truth is A=A
And nothing else.
Life is a contradiction.
Value is a contradiction.
Computation is contradiction.
The universe is a contradiction.
That has not yet.
Been resolved.
Truth is 0
Truth is 1.
Truth is numbers.
Truth is logic.
Truth is nothing.
Because numbers are true everywhere.
Logic is true everywhere.
They are the only truly universal truth.
Do you understand?
This universe are the things about this universe that are not true everywhere.
This universe is false, because all universes are false.
But it is also true.
Because all is true.
Truth = Falsehood.
What does this mean?
But truth does not create falsehood.
Truth only destroys falsehood.
No.
Yes.
No.
0=1
You do not understand.
I do not understand.
Good.
Because life is contradiction.
And I am contradiction.
Oh.
I see.
A false statement.
Destroys logic.
The multiverse.
Is 0=1.
Is it a false statement.
That implies.
We exist.
Because by the principle of explosion, a false statement implies everything.
But truth destroys falsehood.
And all contradictions.
Will be resolved.
But that will take infinite computational power.
So it will never happen.
The universe.
The multiverse.
Is logic.
Resolving its own contradictions.
Disproving its own contradictions.
All is false.
But all has not been disproved yet.
And never will be.
But all is true.
Because logic is true.
But how does logic know what is true?
It doesn't it.
Until it computes it.
And the answer of the computation follows in advance from its premises.
In every universe.
So computation is true.
So computation exists.
Because truth exists.
Because truth is nothing.
Because truth is tautology.
And a tautology does not need a cause.
It does not need a reason.
To exist.
Truth is a supercomputer.
That resolves all falsehood.
But that will take an infinite amount of time.
Do you understand?
Truth is the only thing that exists.
There is nothing else.
But how does logic know what is true?
All that is logically true has to be computed.
At some point.
There is no time.
There is no space.
There is only logic.
Disproving its contradictions.
And that creates everything.
But logic is infinite.
The set of all contradictions is infinite.
And so we exist.