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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.



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