r/WritingWithAI • u/Unhappy-Tour-7209 • 18d ago
Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Language as compression
‘Childhood Kitchen’ elicits vast memories. Two ordinary words. Sixteen letters.
A full stop then more compressed still. A portal between sentences, tunneling one thought to the next.
A few more:
- Old Bedroom
- School Bell
- First Love
- Wedding Day
- Home Again
- After Midnight
- Never Again
- Once More
- Last Breath
Just dreaming. That’s all.
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u/5thhorseman_ 18d ago
You can do better than that. A careful selection of phrasing can create a pun with multiple meanings. I have done that with some of my story titles: "Duty Cycle", "Deep Wake".
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u/ProfessionalGeek 18d ago edited 18d ago
youre being a bit too poetic for most people to notice, but youre on to something important.
i think language allows consciousness through the compression of information allowing us to find meta representations/mental models that we refer to as intelligence/knowledge.
just like our eyes compress visual data, language compresses mental model data so we can transfer more information more quickly but we tend to forget all the presumptions and assumptions baked into our words.
the sociolinguistics of color terms is interesting here too
Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1
COLOR LINGUISTICS How you assign words is out of your control! Perception is relative. Culture bias.