@GabrielDuquette surprise is orthogonal I think. This definition pertains to things like tree rings encoding info about the tree's age
This defn has served me well over the years: "Information is a correlation between two things that is produced by a lawful process" — Pinker
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@GabrielDuquette yes but info doesn't have to be compressed. Stock market has info about e.g. election predictions, but very noisy/diffuse -
@GabrielDuquette we like surprise because humans (like all other infovores) have a preference for dense/compressed info
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@KevinSimler What does it mean by lawful? Rule following? Consistent? -
@sebinsua Pinker had a parenthetical for that (which unfortunately didn't fit in my tweet). He said lawful = not by chance - 2 more replies
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@KevinSimler That's fine, but for the really good stuff you probably need to resort to unlawful processes. -
@SlopeOfFunction copycat bank robberies, recreational drug "epidemics," suicide contagion — that sort of thing?
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@KevinSimler Stick "mutual" in before "information" and the definition is pretty much spot on formally as well.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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