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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by londons_explore on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:50AM (#20673055)
Given enough time and compute, an AGI could enumerate all possible ways to say the sentence in your example, and then store a number representing which sentence is the exact same one as the input.

That number will be much smaller than the text of the sentence.

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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by CamperBob2 on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:55AM (#20673402)
That number would have to specify one of all possible sentences, though, not just one from the subset in question. I'd assume it would be longer in that case.
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