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... If the answer to the square root of 91287346540 is unsurprising, you should just be able to say precisely what it is without working it out. I think the is
by K0balt 6y ago
... If the answer to the square root of 91287346540 is unsurprising, you should just be able to say precisely what it is without working it out.
I think the issue is the definition of surprise is the issue here. It may be unsurprising to receive a birthday gift, but the exact gift is still a surprise.
- magicalhippo 6y agoThe answer to the square root of 91287346540 is trivially surprising. It is not surprising in any interesting way.
- Joker_vD 6y ago...what is the least trivially surprising natural number? That is, would such a number still be trivially surprising?
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- magicalhippo 6y ago> what is the least trivially surprising natural number? Whatever it is, if it exists, it's not what computers were invented to find.
- ukj 6y agoRed herring. Trivial and non-trivial surprises are still surprising.
- vsareto 6y agoPredicating this on surprise is the problem. We still would have used computers for data entry, storage, and transmission even though we know humans could do that because they're simply superior than paper and typewriters in most ways. There's nothing surprising about that.
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