Sewing-Machine comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Will_Newsome 13 August 2010 04:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 August 2010 02:02:41AM 0 points [-]

surprisal

Yudkowsky suggests calling it "absurdity" here

Comment author: Perplexed 26 August 2010 02:29:00AM 1 point [-]

Cool! Saves me the trouble of writing that posting. :)

Absurdity is probably a better name for the concept. Except that it sounds objective, whereas amount of surprise more obviously depends on who is being surprised.