{"id":1014,"date":"2025-07-27T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:50:36","slug":"how-the-universe-stores-information-robin-sloan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/how-the-universe-stores-information-robin-sloan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow the Universe stores information\u201d &#8211; Robin Sloan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTwo dashed hopes that seem to rhyme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hope that, in human DNA, one gene would correspond to one developmental feature: \u201csize of nose\u201d, \u201cpropensity for prostate cancer\u201d: a vast bank of biological switches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hope that, in neural networks, one weight would correspond to one informational feature: \u201cPython function\u201d, \u201cmalevolent plan\u201d: a perfect intellectual X-ray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mapping of the human genome had less of an impact on the world than a person might have predicted back around 2000, because tracing the connection between base pairs and big noses turned out to be\u200a\u2014\u200aturns out to be\u200a\u2014\u200amuch more difficult than anyone expected\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/lab\/how-the-universe-stores-information\/\">https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/lab\/how-the-universe-stores-information\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo dashed hopes that seem to rhyme: The hope that, in human DNA, one gene would correspond to one developmental feature: \u201csize of nose\u201d, \u201cpropensity for prostate cancer\u201d: a vast bank of biological switches. The hope that, in neural networks, one weight would correspond to one informational feature: \u201cPython function\u201d, \u201cmalevolent plan\u201d: a perfect intellectual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}