alt Hacker NewsShorter description isn't understanding, let alone of it is lossy.
When you shorten a description in a lossy way, you are deciding a priori that some differences in the object don't matter, and it's not because you understand the object, but because it serves your goal of shortening the description.
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adrianN • today at 3:42 AM
I'm not aware of a better definition of "understanding" that would allow me to tell whether some system "understands" some other system. Do you happen to know one?
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Or you actually do understand it.
You can't just assume smaller is better but it often is. And very often it's more information-dense.