Ben Gilbert

And there's all sorts of stuff in there that we are sort of looking at about six hours into recording.

We're like, that's not going to make it in.

And that's okay.

That turned out it was not at a salient point.

Right.

I also think it's because when you describe your process, it is lossy compression.

The way compression works in computing is you're taking a large amount of data and you're compressing it down into a smaller amount of data, a different file format.

And if it's lossy, it means that you can never fully recreate the original work.

Or a JPEG.

A JPEG doesn't actually contain all the RGB values from the original photo, but a human kind of can't tell most of the time, and so it's fine.

Explaining a process is a lossy compression of the actual process.

And you're not doing it intentionally.

No, it's just impossible.

Language is a lossy compression of thought.

And uncompressing information, it's so funny.

When you and I are communicating, I had a thought.

I compressed it into a very narrow bandwidth thing of speech.

I told it to you.

You uncompressed it into your brain.

It might actually mean a pretty different thing to you than it means to me.