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Not sure why you make the inference that because we don't have the most elegant encoding of the information that absolute mutual information has not been create
by yters 8y ago
Not sure why you make the inference that because we don't have the most elegant encoding of the information that absolute mutual information has not been created. As it is, any approximation of absolute mutual information is predicated on the existence of said information.
- eigenspace 8y ago> As it is, any approximation of absolute mutual information is predicated on the existence of said information. That's not true. I can approximate a circle on a piece of paper or with a computer or whatever without there ever actually being a true, platonically ideal circle in the entire universe. Similarly, I can construct a heuristic which approximates shared information without that shared information existing in the first place.
- yters 8y agoThat is true, but algorithmic information theory would say the Platonic circle is the best explanation for those approximations, so the approximations are instances of the absolute.