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2024-07-21 13:11:43

Bartosz Milewski on Nostr: I postulate that our brains have a shock-detector. The shock value of a sure thing is ...

I postulate that our brains have a shock-detector. The shock value of a sure thing is zero, so it doesn't even register. The shock value of an impossible thing is infinite. To accommodate a wide range of shocks, the response of the shock detector is logarithmic. So for an event of probability \(p\) we register the shock value of \(sh = log (1/p)\).
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