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The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001)

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181 points ekiauhce | 2 comments | 23 Nov 24 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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omoikane ◴[24 Nov 24 00:14 UTC] No.42224958[source]▶
The original email thread was from 2001, and it gets posted to HN periodically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=patrickcraig.co.uk

For another compression challenge that is still ongoing, try "500000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge" (also known as "Hutter Prize"):

http://prize.hutter1.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502329 - Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge (2023-09-13, 215 comments)

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vlovich123 ◴[24 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42225155[source]▶
I have a fundamental problem with the Hutter prize stating that intelligence is related to compression & then sponsoring a prize for lossless compression. Intelligence is related to lossy compression. Lossless is mainly a mechanistic act.
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1. aleph_minus_one ◴[24 Nov 24 23:39 UTC] No.42231630[source]▶
Marcus Hutter is free to sponsor a prize according to his definition of intelligence. You are free to sponsor a prize according to your intelligence definition involving a lossy compression.
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2. Dylan16807 ◴[25 Nov 24 00:53 UTC] No.42232097[source]▶
Of course he's "free to".

Are you trying to imply that people need to put up big sums of money when they want to critique someone else's definitions be taken seriously? If yes, I think that's ridiculous. If no, I can't figure out the point of your comment.