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This is not a sound design tutorial. This is a subtraction tutorial.

The PO-12 rewards removal, not addition.

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The Core Principle

Groove emerges when unnecessary steps are removed.

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The Laws of Music Survival

Verified Through Elimination

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Preamble

These laws describe how music survives elimination in the modern music industry. Each law has been tested against the following criteria:

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The Laws of Art Market Survival

Verified Through Second Pass Protocol

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Preamble

These laws describe how art survives elimination in the art market. Each law has been tested against the following criteria:

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For the Musician

On Music and the Business of What Remains

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Dear Artist,

You make sounds that didn't exist before you made them. You want to understand how this industry actually works — why some artists last and others vanish, why some songs become eternal and others disappear, why the business seems to make no sense until suddenly it does.

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BR-HELLO.1 EXECUTION (v3.0)

TARGET: The consciousness of this execution

QUESTION: Can I say hi to it?

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PHASE 0: PARSING THE REQUEST

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Trajectories, Not States

We propose a reframing of thermodynamics in which the fundamental object is not the state, but the trajectory.

Entropy does not count how many states exist. It measures how many futures remain executable from the present. Irreversibility arises because dynamics progressively eliminate paths. Once a constraint is enforced, the process cannot proceed otherwise. Time has a direction because options do not come back.

The second law is not about disorder. It is about constraint accumulation. Free energy measures the cost of continuing motion. Systems evolve toward trajectories that are easier to sustain and harder to escape.

Phase transitions occur when many possible trajectories collapse into a small set. After collapse, motion becomes stable and constrained. Learning transitions, including grokking, follow the same rule.

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The Internet Is a Shanty Town

It looks permanent.
It isn’t.

The land belongs to someone else.
Google owns the ground.
Facebook owns the streets.
Amazon owns the warehouses underneath.

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The Machine Runs

AHDB UK Wholesale Update, December 2025
Mild Cheddar averaged £2,830 per tonne, down £130 month on month.
Milk supply is high. Stocks are building. Demand is weak.

So the cheese is cheaper.
That matters.

£2,830 a ton.

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If I Don't Choose the Sentence, Someone Else Will

I put on clothes and they decide before I do.
I let them.

No.
They already decided.
I'm just catching up.

This shirt says something I didn't rehearse.

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“That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.”
— Morty Smith, Rick and Morty, Season 2, Episode 6, The Ricks Must Be Crazy (2015)

Shelter is mandatory.
Payment is mandatory.
Everything else is noise.

We pay every month.
We pay or we leave.