Lumifer comments on Against Amazement - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 September 2016 02:59:01PM 1 point [-]

As the old joke goes, Alzheimer's is the best illness, there is no pain and each morning you get lots of interesting news.

But note that improving the model would result in less pleasant experiences of wonder, but also in less unpleasant experiences of disappointment. Basically you reduce your variance, but it's not obvious to me that you imperfect model necessarily has a pessimistic bias.

Comment author: MrMind 26 September 2016 01:54:05PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. Every pleasant surprise is an update, but not every update is a pleasant surprise.