Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Any 'creation' of information (pictures, books, code, etc) is just pruning the huge space of possible information to leave just the information you want. (lemm.ee)

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Like carving a block of stone to leave only the form of a horse.

The stone (or the information space) already contained the horse, and a million other possibilities, the job of the artist is to collapse those possibilities into a single reality.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you have a block of stone and cut it in two pieces, the position and angle of the cut is information. By carving down a pool of information, you add information to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, the position and angle of the cut is information, but there are an infinite, or at least very large number of possible cuts. That's what I mean by the possibility space. By carving it, you collapse the information from lots of possible states to one real state, thus pruning the possibilities to get one reality.