Manfred comments on How to Be Oversurprised - Less Wrong
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This one was fun for the math. Thank you. The practical advice is pretty prosaic - study the things you're most uncertain about.
Well, thank you!
Yes, I do this more for the math and the algorithms than for advice for humans.
Still, the advice is perhaps not so trivial: study not what you're most uncertain about (highest entropy given what you know) but those things with entropy generated by what you care about. And even this advice is incomplete - there's more to come.