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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There's no way to reverse entropy.
All you can try to do is get a LOT of high entropy data exhaust from a lot of people, and then do some kind of statistical crunch on it, to distil a smaller amount of higher-value lower-entropy statistical overview.
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Then it's not a "circular information economy ... recycling/reconditioning/regenerating" information.
It's just a dissipative economy pulling in new information from elsewhere.
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The term circular economy is only used in such a dissipative sense. Even an isolated space habitat has non-closed mass/energy boundaries.
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