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Fri, 09 Feb 2018 05:08:21 +0000

«Anthropologist David Gra…

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:11:11 +0000

"Anthropologist David Graeber: "It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.""

For a sensible self-referential statement, it's a pity it is not framed as such. As always with Graeber...

https://cass1an.livejournal.com/432560.html

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You should call it entrop…

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:08:35 +0000

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
- John von Neumann, giving advice to Claude Shannon on what to name his discovery.

https://cass1an.livejournal.com/350175.html

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