ciphergoth comments on Think Like Reality - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 May 2007 06:36AM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 06 June 2011 08:56:42PM 2 points [-]

When the world turns out to be counter-intuitive you can be surprised by how sucky your intuition is ("An absolute time frame? Seriously?") rather than by the state of the world.

Comment author: ciphergoth 20 December 2011 08:00:05PM *  2 points [-]

No, it makes sense to be surprised by the world - when that surprise is the sound of you updating to a theory that will be less surprised next time.

Pedantry codicil: information-theoretic surprise doesn't always indicate that your model needs to be updated. I wasn't expecting the lottery numbers to be what they were on Saturday.