That paper includes this observation: Why is human-written text not the most probable text? We conjecture that this is an intrinsic property of human language.

That paper includes this observation: Why is human-written text not the most probable text? We conjecture that this is an intrinsic property of human language... Grice’s Maxims of Communication (Grice,1975) show that people optimize against stating the obvious. I don't think that should be at all surprising, if one purpose of speech is to convey information: predictability is the converse of being informational. Furthermore, to be informative, it is not sufficient for a passage to avoid predictability; it also needs to be pertinent.