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It could be very useful to deliberately pursue SUPER lossy compression. As long as no one can really tell based on the end result, it doesn't really matter.

For example, if you can only tell something was lossy by directly comparing two instances of the same video during playback, then that's probably good enough in most situations.

It occurred to me that we could compress the hell out of written works by translating them into some super dense language, and ultimately only retain the basics of the meaning/concepts/some of the writing style. Then can re-translate that back to whatever language we want to read it in.

For compressing pictures or videos, there could be some similar translation to a much more compact representation. Would probably rely on ML heavily though.




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