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Why? How does this improvement translates to more financial gains?
by sytelus 3y ago
Why? How does this improvement translates to more financial gains?
- Eduard 3y agobecause with that knowledge, you will be able to decompress 0 dollar to infinite dollars which the storage mafia will pay you for not publishing your breakthrough in making them obsolete.
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoLet's say you really find a new, much much better compression algorithm for texts. I do believe that soon new applications will appear that will make use of the whole storage space that existing data storage devices can offer.
- ephbit 3y agoAre you possibly hinting at the endless stream of "new generation iWasteware camera, now with 2 gigapixel sensor" in combination with camera apps that put a (high) limit on the lowest resolution one can choose?
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoI did not have exactly this application in mind, but I was aware that this kind of waste does exist for many commercial applications when I was writing my reply.
- airstrike 3y agosorry, who exactly is the storage mafia?
- munchler 3y agoThe idea is that sufficiently powerful compression is indistinguishable from artificial intelligence, which can be used to make even more money.
- quickthrower2 3y agoBeing that smart translates to more financial gains.
- hegzploit 3y agobecause, then you will have beat pied piper in the market.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoWell, if you achieve this, you'll basically have proven that something (a bunch of information) equals nothing (no information). So 1=0. Once you have that, becoming rich is trivial. Multiplying both sides of the equation by one trillion, 1 trillion = 0. So open a bank account with $0, now you have one trillion. Easy. A funnier (although grimmer) way: let p be the world's population. Multiplying both sides of the equation by (p-1) you get p-1=0. Thus, p=1. If you assume that you exist (which is a reasonable assumption, following Descartes's reasoning) you now own all the wealth in the world.
- falloutx 3y agoI think personally I can compress $1b into 0 within a week, but $1tr would be a real challenge. Another thing I should point out that I don't support compressing people (for now).