# Msg Len

Originally published: 2020-10-11
Canonical URL: /2020/Oct/msg-len/

[(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ex63DPisEjomutkCw/msg-len)

I'll be brief, omit needless words.  
Intelligence is prediction is compression _because_  
Compression is finding a code that makes the data shorter  
And codeword lengths are probabilities  
So codes are probability distributions  
But probability distributions are prediction strategies.