Read the book ADHD is awesome. I read the audiobook during a recent solo trip to London because my son was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and I wanted to understand him better and be more patient with him. I think a lot of it he gets from me and I relate to a lot of this stuff where where, all I want to do is work on these crazy ideas all day. I co-founded a non-profit that does electoral reform because I want to optimize everything. I learned Esperanto I type on a dvorak key map etc. everywhere I look all I see is things to be optimized. but I'm able to manage it fairly well to hold down a software engineering job. I think he has not learned that yet so he struggles. but reading this book helped me see him and understand him better instead of just getting frustrated with him.
approval voting is great. i co-founded a major non-profit that got it adopted in fargo and st louis. for election by jury i'd advocate score voting, since higher resolution is more valuable with small groups.
election by jury is better. elections aren't the problem — uninformed voters are the problem. especially if the turnout is statistically demographically biased (older, whiter, wealthier, more conservative, etc.)
I think their point was that there is no empirical definition of information as it relates to the observer. The expurimint you cite worked upon a physical system that already had a state prior to the expurimint.
If everything is information, then nothing is.
A disordered system still has state. You just don't know what it is.
Fair point on the semantics. But I'm not talking about subjective 'knowledge.' I'm talking about the thermodynamic cost to maintain a state.
Landauer showed that information processing is physical (heat). I’m just extending that logic: if the universe has to process too much state data in one spot, the cost isn't just heat—it's lag (Time Dilation).
It doesn't matter if we observe the mess; the system still has to render it.
The Watt-hour is a "UI hack" that hides the conflict between base-10 math and base-60 time. It forces us to multiply a rate (Watts) by time to get energy, only to divide back by time to understand flow.
I propose a unit shift to align physics with human scheduling: The Jot (Jt ), defined as 1 Joule/hour.
It shifts the awkward math (1 hr=3600 s) out of the usage calculation and onto the device rating.
Conversion: 1 Watt = 3.6 kiloJots (kJt ).
Usage Math: A 50 kJt bulb running for 10 hours uses exactly 500 kJ. No conversion factors.
Battery Math: Capacity (Joules) / Rate (Jots) = Time (Hours). Pure integer division.
This post argues for killing the Watt-hour, measuring energy in Petajoules, and measuring power in Jots.
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