"Entropy suggests that we gain the most insight on a question when we take it to the person of whose response we're least certain.
And it suggests, perhaps, that if we want to gain the most insight into a *person*, we should ask the *question* of whose answer we’re least certain."
—Brian Christian, from 'High Compression'
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