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by TheCoreh 1049 days ago
> Not everything can be meaningfully quantified.

Sure, but written words _can_ be meaningfully quantified. We have been doing that for thousands of years. Starting with numerology and other mystical/religious beliefs, poem metrics, stylometry, crypto analysis, stroke counting, to name a few.

> Not everything needs to be.

Why not?