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		Legend2440 on May 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using a LLM to compress text It doesn’t matter how your predictor works, whether it’s a scientific theory, a statistical model, or a magic oracle. You can always perfectly convert its predictions into compression using entropy coding. The conversion process is black-box.

mjburgess on May 6, 2024 [–]

yes, and this is a very trivial notion of prediction.

Predictions of novel objects derivative from scientific theories arent quantitative data points.

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