"Lossless compression" refers to the nature of the algorithm itself. All those other potential sources of data corruption or algorithm storage corruption that you mention are irrelevant to "lossless compression" and should be discussed under their own names. The standard definition given to "lossless compression" by the technical community is useful, and I don't think it should be contaminated with all these other concepts. The question of whether a given compression algorithm is lossy or lossless is mathematically deterministic and deductive, not probabilistic or inductive.
Bowery's right, your language is confusing. It sounds like you want to discuss the uncertainty of data integrity during storage, retrieval, and/or transmission ... independent of whether any compression algorithm is being applied or not. So let's talk about that. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-Ma7e1c2aea7d813dc54d703d4 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
