Revisions of #1288

Contributors: Knut Sondre Sæbø
If we use Claud Shannon’s framework of understanding information as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that it is dependent on how you subjectively define states and uncertainty. Information is always relative to a certain «perspective». 

If we use Claud Shannon’s framework of understanding information as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that it is dependent on how you subjectively define states and uncertainty. Information is always relative to a certain «perspective».

Version 1 · #1288 · Knut Sondre Sæbø · 23 days ago · Criticism

Will move this criticism as a criticism of the main idea, since it is a criticism of the first premise.
Unmarked as criticism
Version 2 · #1289 · Knut Sondre Sæbø · 23 days ago