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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To notice strangeness is to intuitively detect bad explanations. Strangeness is a function of surprise, and surprise is a function of ignorance
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Yesterday I asked "why don't sharks eat people?" This is the kind of question that an 8-year-old might ask, so it seems cute now. But all the obvious answers are non-answers. "We're not a part of their natural diet." Really? Where do they learn that, shark school?
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It's an interesting story. The implicated sharks (ocean whitetips) apparently rarely go near shorelines and therefore encounter humans much less frequently than the white/tiger sharks that account for most bites
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Possibly more importantly, they're encountering *human corpses,* which apparently (in the case of the WWII frenzy, at least) they have eaten *prior* to attacking living humans. This is pretty weird to me; you don't usually see animals choose carrion over fresh food
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