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I'm not sure it is worth reading if, for example, you're choosing between it and the Sequences. But, for me at 24 years old in '02, it was an important step in my becoming Less Wrong. I guess you could say Wilson fueled my desire to ask questions in all directions, including questions about why I ask questions. If this website had existed then, I would've been far too insecure about my intelligence to partake in it. QP was like a gentler starter kit.
I haven't read Shannon's paper, so I'll have to take your word that RAW is misinterpreting. Does that make his mention of noise in systems (casually applied though it may be) invalid?
No, RAW's further discussion of noisy communications channels is pretty good.
(Shannon's paper proves interesting and surprising things about noisy communications channels, but it takes the noisiness as given -- contra RAW, it does not prove that all communications channels are noisy.)