Storing information while simultaneously keeping it private requires an ongoing resource expenditure—and every day you’re storing it, there’s a non-zero chance that it gets corrupted or leaked anyway. So secrets have a half-life, just like radiation—and in the limit, all information will either be public or lost.
It doesn’t.
Humans want information to be free. Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources. It causes power imbalances. Free information means that power is more evenly distributed.
Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources.
Information is unlike any other resource, it can be shared without taking away from the giver.
Hording it is not about protection what you have, it’s about intentionally depriving others with no benefit to your self other than keeping up a power imbalance.
It’s the same reason that liquids and gasses expand to fill their container
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Gases expand to fill their containers due to the random, high-speed motion of their individual particles and the minimal intermolecular forces between them.
The translation for humans is that humans like to move around and talk, and there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
They do try but information finds its way
I think there are two meanings. One: morally, information should be free, because it’s very cheap and easy to provide information for free and it is beneficial to people to have it. Two: practically, it’s hard to keep information from being free, since giving it to somebody makes it hard to stop them from giving it to others (or restrict them, charge them, etc.).
Information is an abstract thing, like 1+1=2, it doesn’t exist like physical things. Physical things can be arranged to represent it and be used to communicate it, but the information itself is something different and other.
The natural state of things is entropy. Every data carrying medium will decay, and break or die. But if that’s a guaranteed, constant problem, the only way for information, that different, other thing to continue to exist, is to spread. Spreading is easier when it happens without barriers: freely.
because it naturally transmits itself; There’s no way that once a person encounters new information, they don’t carry it with them.
