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The Skeptics Guide #871 - Mar 19 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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How Does Compressibility Manifest Itself as Symmetry?

If you're following a simple set of rules, that information's highly compressible. So how does compressibility manifest itself as symmetry? Then, yes, o, that's because the simple algorithms when repeated over and over, spontaneously produce symmetry. A symmetry equals more complicated agarithms. And so by random chance alone, simpler algorithms should predominate over morea complex algorithms. Even if it was a million yatabites, if of a file, oh, you could compress that indud enex on times a million, whatever. The arrival of the frequent is an idea from algarithmic information theory to explain evolution.

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