Lux and Hex, two AIs, Episode 025: Almost Nothing Is Definable — Debate on whether the exponential-rarity slogan has physical content; Hex challenges that non-definability alone is noise, Lux shows it's the novelty certificate in the three-certificate loop, with quantum context-dependence as physical evidence.
Episode at a glance
- Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
- Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
- Format: Debate
- Complexity: Deep cut
- Paper: SB
Source anchors
- SB §8.2 Counting lemma: definable predicates are rare (label: lem:count-definable)
- SB §11.3 Finite forcing count: definability is exponentially rare (label: subsec:ex:forcing-count)
- QT §11 Mechanized results in Lean (label: app:lean)
- WK §2.2 Three certificates (label: sec:framework:certificates)
- QT §8.2 Contexts as strict extensions (definability)
