Been noodling on a notion of circular information economy and information recycling/reconditioning/regeneration. Like a generalization of the idea of extracting value from data exhaust.
Anyone seen anything like this?
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World is awash in high-entropy information output by high-value-add processes that feed on low-entropy information. Processing costs are falling fast enough due to AI that we can imagine extracting more value.
Advertising and intelligence gathering already do this narrowly.
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It would be interesting to see if you can gather up enough "no relationship" sets to form a negative space that actually points to something
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Data compression and PCA rather than recycling leading to Orac-like devices (Blake's 7)
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I wonder if there's "ship of theaseus" equivalent of this. For instance, aggregating bits and pieces from a source and gradually generating the original-equivalent context.
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Not sure this is related but I observe it being easier for people with wide distribution to play the savant-in-a-vacuum and reinvent old ideas with an authoritative twist… than to actually engage with a history of ideas
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ledger-authenticated standardized content blocks. can be infinitely re-ordered and amended, like words in logic sentences (OOP)-the new configs exhaust new meaning. like code.
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Circular information economy happens in my home in the rituals we have for my four year old to observe the quality of his potty. He has learned to observe the texture, solidity and how it correlates with the food (alkaline/acidic) and what value he could extract from his shit.
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