Exactly, I know first hand that it's easy to believe in such admittedly creative ideas. But thinking it through was fun and cleared up my misunderstanding; in t

Exactly, I know first hand that it's easy to believe in such admittedly creative ideas. But thinking it through was fun and cleared up my misunderstanding; in the end the information itself cannot be compressed, one can only reduce redundancies. And an arbitrarily chosen algorithm tends to do a really bad job with that on average.