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> If you can't generalize then you can't think If you blindly follow others' generalizations without question, you can't think.
by alex_lav 3y ago
> If you can't generalize then you can't think
If you blindly follow others' generalizations without question, you can't think.
- FredPret 3y agoCompression is a form of intelligence
- scubbo 3y agoShort good
- wewtyflakes 3y agoSure if it isn't a losing material information in that process. It is easy to compress anything to true/false if you're willing to live with information loss. I think material information was lost in the aforementioned "Country X can't build anything" hot-take.
- FredPret 3y agoSo people compress to the point where the speed vs information loss tradeoff makes instinctive sense to them. You can dramatically increase your computing power if you're not constantly deriving everything from the fundamental physics and instead rely on some stereotypes. This ranges from "objects that look like that are chairs" to "I can sit on chairs" to "Americans can/can't do X"
- alex_lav 3y agoIt's amusing that this text chain is about derivations when in reality we can reference a direct quote. We're not deriving any meaning here. I'll leave it as an exercise to you to find that direct quote, as it'll be sure you actually read the comment :)
- Rury 3y agoSure, but blindly following something without question, isn't compression, even though both happen to involve reduction.