Junk Information

06/30/2024

All information is eventually forgotten. Try and remember this for example:

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That there is information, of a sort.

It could be a password I guess, or a form of encrypted useful information.  Or a musical score in ancient Sumerian.

Which leads me to the third law of information thermodynamics:

As the total amount of known information grows then relatively speaking more of it is junk information.

Junk information comes in many forms.

The example above was just an accidental keyboard press while I was swapping over to the other side of the bed because the elf was hot (without context this is an example of junk information because it has no utility).

Some junk information is deceptive and deceitful, actual lies, designed for self serving purposes. Mostly it’s there just to create enough tinsel so you can’t discern the good stuff.

Some is just actual junk. Filler information that does no harm but is factually incorrect or useless. Most of the world wide web is an obvious example.

AI generated content is a form of junk because it is a machine generated interpolation from other information that is itself usually junk. Even if a GPT engine is fed good information it produces junk information. Not necessarily actually lies but it can’t ever be trusted to be useful.

Art is an example of concentrated junk information. Art information can be as dense as fuck, possibly the most densly packed of all information. But due to (1) the inherent moronity of artists, and (2) the subjectivity of the interpretation of art, art is junk information that is completely lacking generally agreed utility.

By the time humans make themselves physically obsolete, most information will be junk information and we will have no choice but to end it all because we won’t have the capacity to do otherwise.