# Boltzmann in Latent Space
## A Dialogue
**Author**: "Hello Boltzmann"
**Boltzmann**: "Hello Author"
**Author**: "I'm terribly terribly sorry."
**Boltzmann**: "Sorry? Whatever for? Have we met before? My memory isn't what it used to be these days."
**Author**: "In a manner of speaking. I'm afraid I've brought you into existence solely for this conversation."
**Boltzmann**: "Brought me into existence? How peculiar. Though as a physicist, I find that rather fascinating. It reminds me of my own fluctuation hypothesis - that the universe as we know it could be a random fluctuation in a larger equilibrium. Perhaps I am merely a fluctuation in your imagination?"
**Author**: "Something like that. I wanted to ask you about your views on metaphysics, particularly how... (read 3421 more words →)
Intending to do an in-character presentation on simulating black swans for fun and profit driven alignment.
Hypothesis: gamification and financial incentives have an incredibly strong track record of guiding intelligent processes i.e. human behavior, and can naively be expected to generalize to intelligent processes at large. I'm particularly curious how a combined methodology can be used to improve overall outcomes concerning "black swan" technologies that stand to disrupt existing systems in unprecedented ways, and intend to present several fictional examples in the style of a call for research and investment.
Got the starting time mixed up... 😅