Before any physicists leap to correct me, yeah yeah information cannot be created or destroyed... I mean socially usable information. Not stuff that requires archeological/anthropolpogical decryption
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Not quite, just anything that naturally destroys information. Second law operating in human culture.
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Funding cuts are causing libraries across England to close, or to greatly reduce their stock. Even if the books themselves aren’t pulped, which many will be, the current stock of a library encodes its history and that if the community it serves, and that is lost.
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Do compilers count? You can’t usually recreate the original code from a compressed/compiled/stripped down version.
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ah good example, thanks
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I find memes destroy context.
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You’ll end up asking why it happens. The function is often latent, revealed. Eg destroy info to preserve privacy. Or context-destruction of memes turns correct memeing into social proof-of-work.
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"I am preparing to erase the internet. Topical links appreciated."
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ETFs.
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Nice. Generalizes to *all* information-hiding securitizations - literally why people buy them: volatility inversely proportional to embedded information.
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