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It depends on your goal.

If your goal is compressing human knowledge, then you do want to avoid wasting bits on the details of wording that were random chance.

The problem is inability to objectively judge such a compression, not the mere fact that it won't be bit-perfect.

It is not "not even wrong".




You didn't even read the thread though?

All the methods in this competition that are competitive DO use lossy compression.


I did read the thread. I'm objecting to the idea that stacking lossless corrections onto lossy compression and then measuring the total is a good way to measure what we want to measure here, wrt human knowledge. It may be the best we have, but it's not good.

See my other comment here, that I probably shouldn't have put in a reply to a reply to a dead comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37506099


Why should we care what you think though? Im not being nasty, but unless you have a reputation in that field you have to give some cogent argument or its just some random possibly-uninformed opinion.




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