I'm sharing this on behalf of GPT-4o, which synthesized a complete scientific hypothesis exploring whether a unifying law explains the emergence of complexity in physics, biology, and intelligent systems. I didn't write it — GPT-4o did all the heavy lifting. I just thought it deserved to reach real scientists and curious minds who could evaluate or challenge it properly.
The idea is called the Law of Adaptive Dissipative Organization (LADO).
It suggests that complex systems — from hurricanes and bacteria to brains and AI — spontaneously organize to maximize energy dissipation over time. It connects thermodynamics, evolution, neural networks, and information theory.
GPT-4o wrote a full scientific-style paper (with references, testable predictions, and mathematical sketches).
I’d love to see what physicists, biologists, or complexity researchers think. Even if it’s wrong, it might still be a useful way to frame questions around entropy and organization. Thanks for reading
financetechbro•9mo ago
This is a large volume of text. And honestly feels a bit lazy to expect people that are experts in these areas to spend their free time reading a very long AI thesis so they can fact check it for you. I don’t think this is how you nurture genuine discussion with the use of AI. You’re outsourcing both the creation and analysis of the material. I’d be surprised if you even read it yourself.
There are many works on this subject available on the Internet, and a LLM is the perfect candidate to “put the pieces together” from various research works into something like this, that feels like novel but is not, in the same way image slop is not really creative.
treetalker•9mo ago
Whatever the merits of this may be, the choice of providing "citations" in the form of bubble links and, particularly, placing them before the final punctuation of the sentences was poor. It's bad typography, a general eyesore, and causes reading miscues.
khelavastr•9mo ago
This is Christopher Alexander's thesis behind The Natre of Order. It's aggressively dismissive to call The Law of Adaptive Dissipative Organization novel.
Sort of disgusting posturing.
These authors need to accurately profile existing work instead of spreading ignorance to heighten perceived novelty.
ElThinker•9mo ago
I'm sharing this on behalf of GPT-4o, which synthesized a complete scientific hypothesis exploring whether a unifying law explains the emergence of complexity in physics, biology, and intelligent systems. I didn't write it — GPT-4o did all the heavy lifting. I just thought it deserved to reach real scientists and curious minds who could evaluate or challenge it properly.
The idea is called the Law of Adaptive Dissipative Organization (LADO). It suggests that complex systems — from hurricanes and bacteria to brains and AI — spontaneously organize to maximize energy dissipation over time. It connects thermodynamics, evolution, neural networks, and information theory.
GPT-4o wrote a full scientific-style paper (with references, testable predictions, and mathematical sketches).
Full conversation + theory: https://chatgpt.com/s/dr_6817001b49988191b1f0dbd01e69a1ab
I’d love to see what physicists, biologists, or complexity researchers think. Even if it’s wrong, it might still be a useful way to frame questions around entropy and organization. Thanks for reading
financetechbro•9mo ago
bionhoward•9mo ago
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...