What folks will pay for something like a home or a gold mine in light of the latest news-reports, and that something's thermodynamic net surprisal with respect to the physical ambient*, are two different things. How can we help one another not lose sight of the latter, as we adapt to the new-found mobility of cartoonifying news-reports across our planet?
* The technical term for this is Kullback-Leibler divergence.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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