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PublishedApril 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Calibrated Surprise: An Information-Theoretic Account of Creative Quality
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arXiv:2604.26269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The essence of good creative writing is calibrated surprise: when constraints from all relevant dimensions act together, the feasible solution space collapses into a narrow region, and the surviving choices look least predictable from an unconstraine
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