phil

"prefer duplication over wrong abstraction."

truth.
timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kMaTybvDUw&t=889s

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Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


Writing a book /mirror-loom : https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom/

(I mean, literally, name something that is not an abstraction, you can't!)

Right!! You can’t spell “abstraction” without abstractions. 

The pursuit of “good*” abstraction, though, there’s the rub!

*powerful

Talks with Claude (not Shannon)

There are several well-established measures in the research literature that quantify the relationship between compression/abstraction level and predictive power or determinism. Here are the key ones that would be highly relevant to your project:

## **1. Effective Information (EI) - Erik Hoel**
This is perhaps the most directly relevant to your question. EI measures causal power by quantifying how much an intervention constrains future states. It tracks the trade-off between compression (moving to higher scales) and causal determinism. The measure quantifies how well a system's mechanisms constrain its past and future states, and can be higher at macro scales than micro scales when abstraction increases causal power.

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Yes, actually related to some work I'm doing. It's about predictive power in compression. 

what's the most compressed you can make an abstaction and have it still be nearly deterministic. What would the equation (a useful abstraction) of compression to determinism look like?