Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [leaning in] Hex, picture this. You take a photograph — ten million pixels, sharp detail, every blade of grass visible. Now you reduce it to a fifty-by-fifty grid. A mosaic. Each tile is the average color of the thousand pixels it replaced.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Time (order, ticks, arrow)
• Format: Mini-lab
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: NT

Source anchors

• NT §5 Results I: arrows and clocks
• NT §9 Discussion and conclusion
• SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable
• PL §3.2 Packaging as a lens: points are indistinguishability classes (P5)
• SB §10.1 Definitions of P1--P6