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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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