I call this "noticing confusion" (by way of @ESYudkowsky) and it's probably sufficient to be a singular hallmark of interesting people. The superpower comes from playing with what anomalies suggest about the explanations that fail to predict themhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1147505767039287296 …
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Wouldn't that whole line of speculation be immediately shut down by the observation that if every shark had to learn first-hand to not eat humans by chomping on one themselves, we'd see a hell of a lot more shark bites than we do?
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First bite need not be to test for eating. We may taste tolerable enough for sport biting-but not good enough to eat Speculation oughtn’t require bearing a standard of “more information” (that’s why academia is often tone-deaf to anomaly) Hypotheses, working models arise from it
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Maybe we also smell bad. So they usually know before they actually sink their teeth in.
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