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Yes. But /lossful/ compression: (scientific, philosophical etc.) laws compress an abstract narration of events into that tiny, hard, fundamental, predictive det

• esquivalience 5mo ago
  > "Aagh, the aunt fell!" // "Oh yes, that'd be Newton" This is totally lost on me.
  • mdp2021 5mo ago
    Compression minimizes the representation of information. Laws (scientific, philosophical etc.) as compression represent the common side of classes of events - an abstraction of said events, stripping the irrelevant - irrelevant to some perspective, or irrelevant in a potential Procuste's bed. So, laws are compression, but a so extremely lossful compression that the loss can be relevant. Brutally, "there may be more to the story of the fall of an elderly than just gravitation" - also in the sense that there are details behind the event. Laws are compression - yes, with caveats. On a more scientific, epistemological side: Einstein extended Newton covering more exceptions (reducing the abstraction - reducing the loss).
  • user_7832 5mo ago
    > This is totally lost on me. Appears to be lossy then ;) (Sorry, you have to admit that was too easy to not say)