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by nikonyrh 608 days ago
I suppose you aren't a fan of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize .

> The goal of the Hutter Prize is to encourage research in artificial intelligence (AI). The organizers believe that text compression and AI are equivalent problems.

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I believe that they believe that and that it _could_ be true. That's far from declaratively stating that they are the same thing, as if there was some sort of evidence and consensus of such a claim.