surprisal
Yudkowsky suggests calling it “absurdity” here
Cool! Saves me the trouble of writing that posting. :)
Absurdity is probably a better name for the concept. Except that it sounds objective, whereas amount of surprise more obviously depends on who is being surprised.
Yudkowsky suggests calling it “absurdity” here
Cool! Saves me the trouble of writing that posting. :)
Absurdity is probably a better name for the concept. Except that it sounds objective, whereas amount of surprise more obviously depends on who is being surprised.