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So many insights. Thank you for this episode! If you or Alex are interested in more formalized idea of information compressions, here is a well-respected researcher trying to define it. I loved this read and have a feeling you might enjoy as well.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.4360.pdf?curius=1426

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Thank you for listening Svitlana - and thanks for the article. Added to my reading list.

A quick skim and it made me think of Murray Davis's classic piece on "interestingness." Might be a good pairing: https://proseminarcrossnationalstudies.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/thatsinteresting_1971.pdf

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