Meni_Rosenfeld comments on An Xtranormal Intelligence Explosion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Meni_Rosenfeld 08 November 2010 08:29:53PM 5 points [-]

At the risk of stating the obvious: The information content of a datum is its surprisal, the logarithm of the prior probability that it is true. If I currently give 1% chance that the cat in the box is dead, discovering that it is dead gives me 6.64 bits of information.