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by benchmarkist 552 days ago
Good one but these theorems are useful to have when thinking about information processing systems and whatever promises the hype artists are making about the latest and greatest iteration of neural networks. There is no way to cheat entropy and basic physics so if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true.
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If it is entropy and basic physics why are humans immune to the effect?
Humans are not immune to the effect. We invented methodologies to mitigate the effect.

Think about science. I mean hard science, like physics. You can not say a theory is proven[0] if it is purely derived from existing data. You can only say it when you release your theory and successfully predicate the future experiment results.

In other words, you need to do new experiements, gather new information and effectively "inject" the entropy into the humanity's scientific consensus.

[0]: Of course when we say some physical theory is proven, it just means the probablilty that it's violated in certain conditions is negligible, not that it's an universal truth.