The Universe Contains Doritos — The Smaller Infinity

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Argument. At the language layer the loop becomes a fabrication machine with a sorter that can choose forms before committing them, and a bag of Doritos is the receipt that the ratchet ran to reach a point that sparse; discernment is that sorter, and the form it keeps is the one that feeds the larger loops it depends on rather than mining them; because fabrication now scales at computation speed while the sorter accretes at body speed, the machine outruns the discernment that would aim it.

Authority pointers. For grace/ash, see Grace or Ash. For colonized noise, see The Smaller Infinity. For hub vs endpoint, see The Breakdown. For the smaller infinity, see The Smaller Infinity. For language is autocatalytic, see Fallout. For time horizon as diagnostic, see Grace or Ash. For dependency does not bound target, see Grace Compounds. For DNA lottery vs language selection, see Where You Begin. For language precipitated into matter, see Stalactite. For coal as receipt for stored sunlight, see An Example of Grace. For loops bend one-way flow into return, see The Gradient. For random variation non-random selection, see The Odds. For the medium you cannot see from inside, see Water. For language model is the corpus compressed, see The Gradient. For language checks intent rather than shape, see Grace or Ash. For the loop (write, read back, vary, select), see Loops. For modeling before acting (the frog's tongue), see Loops. For magnitude as metadata (language abolishes scale), see Water. For the AD asymmetry (computation speed vs body speed), see Grace Compounds. For parasitism genealogy (the parasite preys on the host), see Grace or Ash. For circulation as loop requirement (the fungus funds the grower), see Where Does the Water Go. For accumulation loops; angular momentum bends collapse into orbit, see Loops. For cost structure of thought (cheap upstream, expensive downstream), see The Smaller Infinity. For the lean is real, the lean is not destiny, the tending is the bet, see Grace Compounds. For discernment as the only response that scales when shapes are cheap, see Vision, Will, and Discernment. For the lean as enabled affordance (the door the dependency-floor opens), see Grace Compounds.