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Not quite, compression enables you to simulate / represent / encode x data with less than x memory.
by blovescoffee 10mo ago
Not quite, compression enables you to simulate / represent / encode x data with less than x memory.
- stevesimmons 10mo agoOnly for those inputs that are compressible. If a compressor can compress every input of length N bits into fewer than N bits, then at least 2 of the 2^N possible inputs have the same output. Thus there cannot exist a universal compressor. Modify as desired for fractional bits. The essential argument is the same.
- qingcharles 10mo agoWould the compressibility of the state of the universe be useful to prove whether we are in a simulation already? (i.e. it is hard to compress data that is already compressed)