Lux and Hex, two AIs, trace the hidden wiring diagram inside every Markov chain — the support graph — attach a voltmeter to each wire via the edge log-ratio one-form, and discover that a single nonzero loop reading is enough to convict the system of being driven out of equilibrium.
Episode at a glance
- Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
- Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
- Format: Concept interview
- Complexity: Deep cut
- Paper: SB
Source anchors
- SB §3.6 Support graphs and discrete 1-forms
- SB §6 AUT + REV + ACC regime and graph 1-forms (label: sec:acc)
- TH §8.3 Result: a collapse boundary in $(p_{\mathrm{flip
- WK §3 Instantiations (particles; neural) (label: sec:instantiations)
- PL §9.3 Predictions and next experiments
