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   by gjygj 5y ago

   The word "huge" carefully avoid quantifying the amount of information. Imagine a conversation with zero non-words information (a transcript). Now one with zero words (mime game) . Which one conveys more information?
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   by gjygj 5y ago

   In that case a transcript of a conversation would be almost worthless since it's depriving us of the body language or the tone.
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   by gjygj 5y ago

   Sure, but how many bits of information are in those modifiers you mentioned? Maybe you can modulate it in 200 different ways? Surely way less than in the actual sentence, since you have millions of different posibilities for the words: go&#
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   by gjygj 5y ago

   There are songs with billions of views on YouTube. We are not that unique, some sounds tickle us all.
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   by gjygj 5y ago

   I like to call it "music of the spheres". I also wonder of the AI which creates it, then also creates the next level, the "music of the hyper-spheres", which it declares the best music ever conceived, but which to us sou
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   by gjygj 5y ago

   There is also Type 3, which is both Type 1 and Type 2, alternatively, or at the same time.
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   by gjygj 5y ago

   > important pieces of communication are non-verbal That can't possibly be true for actual information (in the Shannon sense). When you say to someone "go to the grocery store and buy a soda", these words can't be just