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Compute Together, Stay Together: A First-Principles Analysis of Universal Computation and the Negentropic Imperative for Alignment
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Argues that cosmic, biological, and artificial computation are participants in a single universal negentropic trajectory, and derives an alignment imperative from that continuity.
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@misc{anderson_2026_compute_together_stay_together,
author = {Jed Anderson},
title = {Compute Together, Stay Together: A First-Principles Analysis of Universal Computation and the Negentropic Imperative for Alignment},
year = {2026},
url = {https://jedanderson.org/essays/compute-together-stay-together},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
} APA
Anderson, J. (2026). Compute Together, Stay Together: A First-Principles Analysis of Universal Computation and the Negentropic Imperative for Alignment. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/essays/compute-together-stay-together
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Anderson, Jed. "Compute Together, Stay Together: A First-Principles Analysis of Universal Computation and the Negentropic Imperative for Alignment." Jed Anderson, May 13, 2026, https://jedanderson.org/essays/compute-together-stay-together.