For all our sakes, I wish you the best of luck with this idea. I'm sorry I don't know how to help you but your idea sounds promising and it's super invigorating to see high agency people try to implement their solutions to our problems! :)
"Constructor Theory is a new approach to formulating fundamental laws in physics. Instead of describing the world in terms of trajectories, initial conditions and dynamical laws, in constructor theory laws are about which physical transformations are possible and which are impossible, and why. This powerful switch has the potential to bring all sorts of interesting fields, currently regarded as inherently approximative, into fundamental physics. These include the theories of information, knowledge, thermodynamics, and life."
I am not sure what this brings to the table. I read the first paper about information theory from the constructor viewpoint and a constructor just seems to be some function. I am not sure if there is some deep takeaway. Physics people already care about what "transformations" occur on a system? Eg quantum computation is about unitary transformations?
I also feel its like a physicist is trying to recast stuff in a functional perspective without knowing it. For example saying a quantum field theory is a functor : Bord -> Vect, might be something a mathematician would say, but it seems not many physics people would be familiar with this idea.
I think its also interesting they have this flashy website which kind of reminds me of a scam.
I love the intentional or unintentional reference to Trurl and Klapaucius, the constructors in Stanislaw Lem's novel, Cyberiad, who grappled with many philosophical issues like artificial intelligence, robotics, technology, thermodynamics, life, love, romance, poetry, self replication, and the origin of the universe.
>Trurl and Klapaucius are brilliant (robotic) engineers, called "constructors" (because they can construct practically anything at will), capable of almost God-like exploits. For instance, on one occasion Trurl creates an entity capable of extracting accurate information from the random motion of gas particles, which he calls a "Demon of the Second Kind". He describes the "Demon of the First Kind" as a Maxwell's demon. On another, the two constructors re-arrange stars near their home planet in order to advertise.
>The duo are best friends and rivals. When they are not busy constructing revolutionary mechanisms at home, they travel the universe, aiding those in need. As the characters are firmly established as good and righteous, they take no shame in accepting handsome rewards for their services. If rewards were promised and not delivered, the constructors may even severely punish those who deceived them.
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>On another occasion, Trurl and Klapaucius are captured by an interstellar "PHT" pirate. Trurl offers to build a machine capable of turning hydrogen into gold (something he can do manually, which he demonstrates by hand, mixing up protons and putting electrons around). However, the pirate turns out to have a PhD and cares not for the riches, but for knowledge (and in fact points out that gold becomes cheap if it is abundant). Trurl therefore makes a modified Maxwell's demon for him, an entity that looks at moving particles of gas and reads information that is, coincidentally, encoded in their random perturbations. This way, all the information in the universe becomes easily available. The demon prints out this information on a long paper tape, but before the pirate realizes most of the information is completely useless (although strictly factual) he is buried under the endless rolls of tape, ceasing to bother anyone.
Does anyone know what the implication for humans is? Do we know what might be activating these epigenetic regulators in humans and how we can reverse them?
He also eats NMN, resveratrol and metformin (not for diabetes, but for anti-aging). He talks about these measures that he takes and the research he uses to motivate them in his podcast with Joe Rogan (can be found by "Joe Rogan David Sinclair"). The research is not as conclusive yet as to be fully agreed on upon everyone after rigorous testing up to WHO standards, but it is solid enough for this researcher (in the field of aging no less) to consider these measures valuable.
That healthspan might be extended along with lifespan is tremendous news. I think people are afraid of living longer than 75 or so because they assume that the rest of their life will be a spent in senility. But if we can figure out how to keep minds and bodies useful as long as a person lives by influencing their epigenetics, we could make people productive and happy for decades longer.
