[HN Gopher] Compressing Hegel (2020)
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       Compressing Hegel (2020)
        
       Author : optimalsolver
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2023-04-25 22:23 UTC (37 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (wittgenfine.substack.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (wittgenfine.substack.com)
        
       | TurkishPoptart wrote:
       | This piece could benefit from some H1/H2 headers to break up the
       | text.
        
       | AnotherGoodName wrote:
       | More directly they are both about prediction.
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       | If I can accurately predict the next X bits I don't need to store
       | those.
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       | If I can accurately predict the next X bits of information that
       | will happen after a decision I can make a reasoned decision.
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       | That's it. That's the link as plainly as possible. If you want
       | more detail read up on arithmetic coding and how it can take
       | predictions as in input to data compression and then Marcus
       | Hutters papers on general purpose AI requiring the exact same
       | thing.
        
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