It seems to me that the stipulations made here about the inferential potential or little information is made from the naive viewpoint that piece of information are independent.
The idea of the plenitude of information with inferential ability that is readily accessible to a smart enough agent doesn’t hold if that information consists of things which are mostly dependent on each other.
Isn’t this point already assumed in the post? Note how the civilization isn’t really learning anything new anymore by the fourth grid:
The Fourth Grid doesn’t add much to the picture.
This only makes sense if the info is highly redundant, aka not independent.
Isn’t this point already assumed in the post? Note how the civilization isn’t really learning anything new anymore by the fourth grid:
This only makes sense if the info is highly redundant, aka not independent.