304 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: _Broken Money_ book club, part 4 bitcoin
Or perhaps, we could just talk about "information" in the Shannon sense, where these redundancies are formalized.
Ah great insight - we could quantify information novelty/scarcity/surprise. I wonder if we could use Shannon to model how fast our infinite aliens would get bored.
In any event, you can imagine a sensor-rich world where there's simply more, and more useful, info avail to some centralized mega-brains, enough that allows them to outcompete the more numerous multi-agent model.
You just wrote the plot to at least half of the next decade's dystopian scifi movies.
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