gwern comments on Open Thread February 25 - March 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 02 March 2014 04:44:06PM 2 points [-]

I didn't see this formalization used on LW or the wiki, perhaps it is of interest.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&q=Kullback-Leibler%20OR%20surprisal%20site%3Alesswrong.com

Speaking of the LW wiki, how fundamental is it to LW compared to the sequences, discussion threads, Main articles, hpmor, etc?

Not very, unfortunately.