Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [leaning in] Here's a question. You want the distance between two cities. But you don't have a map. No roads. No ruler. No GPS. All you have is a ledger — a table of ticket prices between every pair of stops. Can you reconstruct distance from that alone?

Episode at a glance

• Series: Space & geometry
• Theme: Space, geometry & emergence of metrics
• Format: Tool spotlight
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: PL