The ruliad and possibilities space
2025-07-24 22:17:19 +01:00 by Mark Smith
This concept popped up a few times in my mind in the past few weeks for some reason. I can never remember the name of it. I finally had some time today to look it up. The ruliad describes the possibilities space of all possible computations, all possible inputs over an infinite number of steps. In a way, it‘s possibly the most ridiculous idea ever. And yet, there is a lot you can start to discover when you attempt to formally describe, well, everything.
I didn‘t have the time to read it all, it‘s a very long article, but once you get the general concept, the sections on experiencing the ruliad, living in the rulial space, what is is beyond the ruliad?, and especially communicating across rulial space and alien views of the ruliad, are incredibly fascinating imo. It gets very scientific in places, but just skip over the crazy diagrams. I have listened to Wolfram talking about it himself on some podcasts, and that‘s a much easier way to absorb the ideas than text to be honest.
For some reason setting up automated Typescript typechecking causes me to think about this kind of stuff.
Anyway this post is mostly so I can easily find the idea again, but also it might be interesting to others. #