SilasBarta comments on An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 24 March 2010 09:25:49PM *  2 points [-]

It's a great insight, but not that hard to prove (or at least "get" the reasoning behind it): anything that distinguishes the data from randomness is redundant information, and that redundancy can be used to further compress it.

(Obviously, that doesn't count as a formal proof, &c.)