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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by dwohnitmok on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:36PM (#20670688)
I found Scott Alexander's take on this fairly convincing. Essentially if you master language you get broadly generalizable insights across domains.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...

If you think of intelligence as distilling the essence of the universe around you and building on top of that, at least the former starts to sound like really really really sophisticated compression.

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