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Deep cynicism combined with narrow intelligence makes it hard to tell your own indifference apart from lack of surprisal in events. “I don’t care about this” —> “why is this surprising?” “I must have expected this since I’m not surprised” —> ‘I’m smarter than the surprised ones”
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Helps if you explicitly separate the two definitions of surprise -- the emotional reaction vs. the information-theoretic model violation
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1 congratulations on “surprisal” 2 an analogue is “I don’t understand” as a criticism. “I don’t understand people who” is a dis of them, “I don’t understand Cantonese” is a dis of myself
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