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Comment author: OrphanWilde 03 February 2016 02:55:55PM 1 point [-]

I expect this notion of surprise to be generalizable.

Which is what I'm trying to get at. There's -something- there, more than "amount of updates to world-models". I'd guess what we call surprise has a complex relationship with the amount of updates applied to world-models, such that a large update to a single world-model is more surprising than an equal "amount" of update applied across one thousand.