Information Is Subjective: A Schrödinger-Style Take on the LeCun Bytes Debate
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-10-05
Amid the LeCun information-theory debate, user xiaosun86 argues bytes aren't necessarily information to a specific observer: a valley of trees and sunset clouds may carry no more information than a one-line prompt, unless you know each tree and track changes — then it becomes information, even the negative entropy Schrödinger described. Whether an image is AI-generated or real changes how much information an observer extracts.
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