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Prediction and compression are one operation

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How to Compress AI Timelines (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Solomonoff showed the ideal predictor is the shortest program that could have produced what you have seen. Language model training objectives are compression scores, so every frontier lab runs a giant compression prize without calling it one — and by Landauer’s principle the datacenter heat is the latent heat of the squeeze.

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2026-09-17: BITCOS compresses ternary model weights

2026-07-08: Superposition is read as a mind under pressure

2026-07-08: A testable prediction: seeded condensates should nucleate the jump early

2026-07-08: Taking compression literally turns the timeline into a design question

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Prediction and compression are one operation
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