On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 10:11 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Algorithmic information or compression is great for evaluating language >> models but not for everything.... >> >> I could try compressing world population data by fitting it to a >> polynomial, >> > > Do you understand the difference between statistics and dynamics? > No, it's the difference between compressing text and compressing video. You can't accurately measure the compression of a tiny signal in a sea of noise. This becomes a problem for statistics about people. It only takes a few bits of Kolmogorov complexity for social scientists to construct models that favor one group over another, and those bits can be hidden in the choice of language ambiguity. I think it would be great if we could answer political questions objectively. So how would you solve the problem? <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T504adacb23f3c455-Md49fd5f054dbc9f5d8062388> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T504adacb23f3c455-M417cdb6912f7a31e584ba578 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
