Re: [agi] All Compression is Lossy, More or Less

[Jim Bromer]

John:
There is no such thing as pure entropy. It may be useful as an idealization 
within an imagined containment or ideological structure but that is it.  There 
is no such thing as pure randomness except as an imaginary thing within a 
mathematical container.  If pure randomness is useful in mathematics then how 
might it be actively used? I can only think of value that is random to some 
system of ordering and since the compilation of all possible orderings is 
impossible for an infinite field the idea of randomness is strange. Randomness 
is inadequately-defined. 
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