A Digression: This is interesting to me in an interesting way.

Often, I find that thinkers, even seemingly broad thinkers, have one idea, one simple concept that connects to everything they do.

A typical example of this is Nassim Taleb, who says himself that he is concerned with one topic: Randomness.

Eliezer is the other primary person to whom I attribute one key idea (I'd be interested if he, or anyone else disagrees). It seems to me that the one idea that encompasses everything that Eliezer does is Intelligence.

Reading this post, I realized, randomness is the flip-side of the coin, the negative-inverse of intelligence! The absence of intelligence, seen "from the inside", is randomness. Randomness is just phenomena that are responding to a higher ordering than one's mind can grasp.

Randomness is a measure of intelligence. The greater one's intelligence, the less randomness there is (to it).

My world just grew a little more connected.