Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Any 'creation' of information (pictures, books, code, etc) is just pruning the huge space of possible information to leave just the information you want. (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like carving a block of stone to leave only the form of a horse.

The stone (or the information space) already contained the horse, and a million other possibilities, the job of the artist is to collapse those possibilities into a single reality.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Except, ideally, a PhD thesis. Which should contain a completely new piece of information for the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

A good portion of any paper is citing references

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Well no. It's still just a list of text, so that text as well as all other text with minor and major variations exists in the information space. As I said, the hard part is getting rid of all the wrong stuff.