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Few people realize that "retirement" years prior to serious age related cognitive decline is all that is left of Yeomen As Foundation of Scientific Revolution <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2007/01/yeomen-as-foundation-of-scientific.html>. Bosses are about exploitation of someone else's exploration. Young people are so financially oppressed by the horrors of unaffordable family formation (eg mortgage-sized student loan debt they can't escape even under bankruptcy) that their natural curiosity and tendency to question authority is crushed out of the box. Tenure is supposed to make up for this, but by the time it's achieved, the Esteemed Professor is too much A Defender of The Faith to question The Faith. While there are exceptions like E.O. Wilson, ie, "The Evolution of Eusociality", they are as rare as Elon Musk's. This is only one reason I proposed privatizing the government with a citizen's dividend and replacing the 16th Amendment with a tax on liquidation value of net assets at the long term treasury rate <https://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.txt> after seeing how the sausage was made <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2018/04/necessity-and-incentives-opening-space.html> . On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 10:38 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm on the Hutter prize committee so I'm not eligible for prize money. > Nevertheless I am working on a project that might produce some code > (GPL) that others might find useful. At this point it is just a > preprocessor to improve downstream compression by other compressors. > Details at > https://encode.su/threads/4467-enwik9-preprocessor?p=86853#post86853 > > The current version compresses enwik9 to 268 MB in 5 minutes and > decompresses in 19 seconds. It is a 4 stage preprocessor and a simple > LZ77 compressor, but it is mainly useful to skip the LZ77 step and > compress it with other compressors. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T0518db1e3a0c25c5-Mc7f704258b19f9a83b7c2f5a Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
