Matt Mahoney, one of the leading lights in lossless compression, comments over at the (high noise level) AGI forum, and I respond with a scenario illustrating how this might reduce the likelihood of a near-term breakout of massive neighbor-against-neighbor bloodshed emerging in Virginia over gun control:

https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tf67f6c4584fac2f7-M05a4c...