Emotional processing.

I think this is a direction as well, though I'm also conscious that it may be something else we're mostly unaware that we do.

That's pretty pedantic. They were simply addressing one branch of the if, so their statement was relevant.

Good idea. Write a python script, and then code the minimal c interpreter possible to make that specific script work, utilizing the script itself as string reference (and any other way one can manage to utilize it in the interpreter itself).

Someone actually testing Kolmogorov Complexity LOL

Also, it allows the matching party to directly gauge and give along the lines of true public interest, and not waste their money on something nobody cares about.

Yes, I wonder why this is not the most obvious reason.

There are infinite ways to give away money, this scheme allows to align better with what causes other people are ready to support with their own money.

I think it provides a necessary pointer to the idea that we will need more than prediction to make a viable general AI - that the prediction model is useful, but has fundamental limitations.

I think you misunderstood his question.

Given two files, a compressed file which must be uncompressed to play, and an uncompressed one which does not require extra processing - why would the game ever bother uncompressing te compressed file when the same data is already available uncompressed?

There's no true use case for that that I can see.

With hard disks, I could see reading the compressed version from disk and decompressing giving you the bytes faster than reading the uncompressed version. With SSDs that advantage likely went away.

Yep. If you had the CPU overhead available, you could speed up your entire computer by enabling full-disk compression and then defragmenting. It's difficult to accurately describe just how slow it was to move data to and from a spinning platter over a PATA interface.

I would guess to save on installed size?

It's not about size or file count or disk space consumed. The question is about why would you require the extra overhead of playing the compressed version which involves decompressing it on the fly in some way, versus just playing the already decompressed version.

In this case it was stated that both the compressed and decompressed versions live side by side. So there is no install size saved.

The OP stated

"The game Titanfall on PC has the audio in it twice, compressed and decompressed."

'has it twice' could just be on the install media, and compressed/ uncompressed chosen as a trade off between install size and performance.

Anyway searching around the OP seems to be misrembering. Titanfall seems to be well-known for 35gb out of the 48gb install being uncompressed audio. I couldn't find a reference to it also having compressed audio also.

..so.. ..you know about RealMyst, right? A 3d first-person adaptation of the original Myst?

What's the point you're trying to make?

I think they were just excited to share that a newer game exists, given OC was posting how they liked it.

For very small values of newer. There have been two remakes of Myst since then.

meh.