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I don't know what you mean by "my metaphor". In both cases, the colored number diagram and the diagram within a diagram (steganography), it's all right there in front of you if only you had the key to see it.

The "key" is the algorithm by which you transform the data that's there. There is no boundary, only the transformation. ... like reordering the words in a word puzzle. E.g. Slate Star Codex *hides* the name Scott Alexander. There's no boundary there. But there is a transformation that needs to be made to see the hidden info.

On 5/18/20 3:14 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, but in your metaphor, the image is not hidden BECAUSE it is inside.  As a color blind person, there is no BOUNDARY between me and the numeral.  Quite the opposite.  It is right there in front of me if only I had the key, knowledge, information, etc, to see it.  

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