Totally off topic, but can someone point me to an explanation of this paragraph?
You might say that a predictable punchline is too high-entropy to be funny, by that same logic which says you should be enormously less surprised to find your thermostat reading 30 degrees than 29 degrees.
I am not sure I get it, but I think it’s that that if people commonly didn’t actually care about temperature except to 5 degrees accuracy, then you might expect to see it set to a round number. On the other hand, my thermostat IS set to single-degree accuracy even though it can’t maintain such a precise temperature.
Totally off topic, but can someone point me to an explanation of this paragraph?
I am not sure I get it, but I think it’s that that if people commonly didn’t actually care about temperature except to 5 degrees accuracy, then you might expect to see it set to a round number. On the other hand, my thermostat IS set to single-degree accuracy even though it can’t maintain such a precise temperature.