Guillaume Verdon: Surprisal divorced from signal is just entropy in a noisy cognition era
beffjezos · x · 2026-10-09
Quoting a take that the attention economy has induced "a total divorce of surprisal and signal" more pathological than we comprehend, Guillaume Verdon adds that surprisal diverging from truth is simply entropy/noise — we live in an extremely noisy cognitive environment.
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