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"This release is the culmination of many hours of collective effort to create a single file that compresses the visual information of humanity into a few gigaby
by api 4y ago
"This release is the culmination of many hours of collective effort to create a single file that compresses the visual information of humanity into a few gigabytes."
If something like this is possible, does this mean there's actually far less meaningful information out there than we think?
Could you in fact pack virtually all meaningful information ever gathered by humanity onto a 1TiB or smaller hard drive? Obviously this would be lossy, but how lossy?
- MaxikCZ 4y agoYou can pack virtually all meaningful information ever gathered by humanity onto a single bit, but its gonna be lossy. And what is your definition of "meaningful information" anyway. Meaningful today might not be meanigful yesterday. Nobody cares about spin of each electron in my brain today, but in 4 centuries my descendants will be like "if only we had that information, we could simulate our great-...-great parent today"
- api 4y agoLossy compression isn’t linear. If you play with JPEG quality you’ll see that the difference is barely perceptible for a while and then if you keep going down it becomes very noticeable. So what does this look like with a general model?