I've entirely had it with people raving about "sentences never spoken before in human history", nearly everything most people have ever said or written has been totally unique
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I actually did the math once and I think the breakeven point for whether a sentence has been said before was something like 4-7 words. (Based on estimates for average entropy of English and number of English sentences ever spoken)
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Counterpoint: The entropy in natural language is very, very unevenly distributed. Just as maximal entropy in data is random noise, maximally entropic language would be gibberish. Language defines its very meaning based on correlation.
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Therefore while I will grant that nearly all (in the statistical sense) of human productions have been unique, the number of TOTALLY unique productions is nearly zero.
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now hold on, doesn't google generally fail on longer quoted things regardless of the results existing
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Relevant xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/34/
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