condensation-storage-retrieval-tradeoff
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Statement
A condensation-like theory with a correspondence theorem exists when the fixed retrieval policy is dropped, a set of questions is treated as one product question, and the score trades storage cost against retrieval cost.
Source
Demski's LessWrong posts Condensation (2025-11-09, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BstHXPgQyfeNnLjjp/condensation) and Condensation & Relevance (2026-01-23, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2x9yatKKTRMabQAWq/condensation-and-relevance): the posts propose modelling a trade-off between retrieval cost and storage cost, with the two limits (caring only about storage compresses everything together; caring only about retrieval compresses answers individually) and a hoped-for nontrivial theory of abstraction in between.
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