“Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.” IfsWantNeedsCoursesVirtueLowsSentencesRitualInquiryEarnestBiasedEntropyPleasantries Author:Brian Christian
“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.” WritingFightingHarderPhonesChecksHelpfulSpellsSwimmingUnpredictableCompletionEntropyUnrulySwimming UpstreamSpell Check Author:Brian Christian
