Yes, I can see the appeal of this idea—makes sense to me. Summarizing it to myself:
1) The essence of something (that is compact by definition)—call it the MDL (minimum description length)—should be as short as possible. Think of this as the file MDL.gz.
2) The expanded version—let’s call it Bloated.doc—should be as vast and rich as possible while still allowing the human mind to grok, work out the compact MDL.gz. (the relation check between the two is $ cmp <(gzip -dc MDL.gz) Bloated.doc)
3) The difference in size between the compressed (MDL.gz) and expanded (Bloated.doc) forms is a measure of the beauty of Bloated.doc as ideated by us humans. (sizes as seen by $ ls -la MDL.gz Bloated.doc)
Yes, I can see the appeal of this idea—makes sense to me. Summarizing it to myself:
1) The essence of something (that is compact by definition)—call it the MDL (minimum description length)—should be as short as possible. Think of this as the file MDL.gz.
2) The expanded version—let’s call it Bloated.doc—should be as vast and rich as possible while still allowing the human mind to grok, work out the compact MDL.gz. (the relation check between the two is $ cmp <(gzip -dc MDL.gz) Bloated.doc)
3) The difference in size between the compressed (MDL.gz) and expanded (Bloated.doc) forms is a measure of the beauty of Bloated.doc as ideated by us humans. (sizes as seen by $ ls -la MDL.gz Bloated.doc)