Peter_de_Blanc comments on Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 February 2008 07:14PM

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 24 February 2008 12:54:13PM 7 points [-]

Even an optimal language would not be one designed to minimize average message length, because some messages are more urgent than others, even if relatively uncommon; e.g., messages about tigers.