Johnicholas comments on The power of information? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: PhilGoetz 13 October 2009 01:07AM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 13 October 2009 08:17:35PM 3 points [-]

A (thermal, say) random number generator is easy to build and a good source of both Shannon and algorithmic (Kolmogorov) information. Having lots of information in these senses is not helpful for winning battles.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 October 2009 01:49:57AM 1 point [-]

True. However, I'm considering information that's not at all random, so I don't think that's a problem.