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by contravariant 865 days ago
This might be the first time someone used the word "entropy" colloquially in the hopes that it is generally well understood what it means.

To me the usage makes no sense whatsoever, there's no entropy to be found here, and if there is it's not what is being displayed. Perhaps it makes sense to people who don't know what entropy is, though most of them wouldn't know the word in the first place.

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Same here. My first reaction to this was "how does this compute entropy at all"? Also, entropy and complexity are two different, if related, concepts, both mathematically and colloquially speaking.

It's abuse of technical language in efforts to sound impressive, in my opinion, which I guess is a valid form of language evolution. There are other words in our lexicon that have become general purpose and fuzzy in spite of their precise technical origins.