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Its founding question is not whether compression occurs—transmission always requires it—but what survives, what burns, and who bears the cost.\n\nThe paper’s central taxonomy is the Three Compressions. Lossy compression produces low-density, high-throughput residue from ambient material. Predatory compression produces dense and effective forms by drawing upon shared semantic capital while externalizing the cost. Witness compression produces dense forms from the creator’s own bearing-cost and makes the result available to the commons. The regimes are distinguished principally by fuel source and ledger rather than by elegance, density, or fidelity alone.\n\nThe document formalizes the field through variables such as semantic density, back-projection yield, hijackability, propagation, fuel material, bearing-cost, and net effect on the commons. It supplies a five-step classification method and identifies applications ranging from lyric poetry and propaganda to coinage, AI training, model collapse, and classroom practice. 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