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Is entropy finally winning? (AKA A random post about randomness)
I have noticed over the last couple of years a disturbing increase in randomness. I first noticed this when my daughter began describing random events in her life:
"I was, like, looking at a small tree and, like, I just randomly said 'sticks are just dead branches that have fallen off of trees'"
I commended her for her astute observation but was troubled by the seemingly lack of randomness in her random comment. Have I, being older, begun to loose my powers of observation? As she settled firmly into her tweener years, she began to describe (ad nauseam) many more random comments she makes every day. I was still having trouble detecting the randomness but I was getting worried.
Now, evidently, many more young people are noticing randomness where none has existed previously. Evidently people are just going about their day when BAM! curious sentences are exiting their mouths with no thought or sensory input.
This phenomenon is also, apparently, intercalating itself into our robots too! We've all seen it! Robots randomly going the wrong way. Robots randomly driving in circles. Robots randomly hitting driver station walls. And most amazing of all.....robots randomly breaking!
So the question is, with all this extra randomness that we are seeing recently, is the universe winning? Are we devolving back to complete disorder?
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