There’s a fundamental difference between matter and information—if I cook one meal, only one person can eat it (or two people can each eat half, etc.), whereas if I write one page, arbitrarily many people can read it.
The average PCR among the whole population would be 1 for food (well, slightly less than that given that some food gets thrown away) but much less than 1 for writing (so long as you don’t count stuff that no-one but the writer will read, such as shopping lists). Of course, the optimal PCR for a given individual may vary from that by several orders of magnitude, but in absence of any other information my prior is that it’s higher for food than for writing.
There’s a fundamental difference between matter and information—if I cook one meal, only one person can eat it (or two people can each eat half, etc.), whereas if I write one page, arbitrarily many people can read it.
Sure. How would you expect that to adjust the optimal PCR for food as compared to writing or reading?
The average PCR among the whole population would be 1 for food (well, slightly less than that given that some food gets thrown away) but much less than 1 for writing (so long as you don’t count stuff that no-one but the writer will read, such as shopping lists). Of course, the optimal PCR for a given individual may vary from that by several orders of magnitude, but in absence of any other information my prior is that it’s higher for food than for writing.