A photo can't carry 512 freely chosen bits unless you stage the scene first
bubbling_creek · x · 2026-09-07
Toby Ord explains that while a staged scenario may communicate 512 bits in some sense, a photo alone cannot transmit 512 freely chosen bits — you would have to stage the photo, setting up the scene in the world so it can be captured.
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