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It is life, but it is also still lossy. I don't understand your confusion: you're both right. Everyday decisions are logically chosen from our perspective but
by elefanten 8y ago
It is life, but it is also still lossy.
I don't understand your confusion: you're both right. Everyday decisions are logically chosen from our perspective but still lossy in absolute terms. That manifests when we are frequently wrong about our presumptions... every damn day, more or less.
- nurettin 8y agoWould you describe Jpeg as "Making practical generalizations and assumptions based on scarce information." ? Because that is what we do in epistemology. We don't lose information, we never had it in the first place. If I compared a way of deduction with a pool of complete information, assuming such a thing can exist, I would be comparing apples with oranges.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoWhat's wrong with comparing fruit with fruit?
- nurettin 8y agoWould you discuss what type of hammer to use in order to break a banana? Apples-oranges is an analogy for irrelevance of properties when comparing two different things. Is that clear to you?
- james_s_tayler 8y agoAnd I was using lossy compression to abstract up a level to where objects in the same category share attributes. Is that clear to you?
- nurettin 8y agoAre you saying that epistemology starts from absolute knowledge and widdles it down to a mangled approximation in order to show it on a web page?
- james_s_tayler 8y agoAre you conflating compression with image compression? The abstract notion of compression is reducing the size of something by trading off some of it's other properties. You can compress a gas, data, an image, audio, rocks can be compressed, brains can be compressed.
- nurettin 8y agoI'm glad we are on the same page.
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