Mechanism
Stripping an idea’s outer message does not fix a single wrong decoding key — it unpins the key, leaving the surviving claim underdetermined. The more compressed the claim, the wider the range of readings it will support. Compression’s second effect, alongside shifting the expected decode: it widens the variance of decodes across receivers.
Connections
- Defined in: Myths, Scale, and Bureaucracy, Truth, Compression, and When Each Wins
- Discussed in: Virality Trade-off, Ch 5c — Truth, Compression, and When Each Wins
- Derives from: Transport
- Derived from by: Myth dilution at scale
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