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I was literally asking about what in particular makes this topic so important as to qualify it as "something that is more important than - in my estimate - 99% of what your or I have ever read" (and doubting that anything could).
You gave only a meta-reply, saying that if anything important was involved and I chose to ignore it, my strategy would not be a good one. But I don't know that it's important, and it's a relevant fact to consider when selecting a strategy. It's decision making under uncertainty. Mine is a good strategy a priori: 99 times out of 100 when in fact info is dross, I make room the the sure shots.
The info I have gives me good confidence in the belief that studying PCT won't help me with procrastination (as I mentioned, it was out there for a lot of time without drastically visible applications of this sort, plus I skimmed some highly-cited papers via google scholar, but I can't be confident in what I read because I didn't grasp the outline of the field given how little I looked). The things I study and think about these days are good math, tools for better understanding of artificial intelligence. Not terribly good chances for making useful progress, but not woo either (unlike, say, a year ago, much worse two years ago).