Thanks for this.
Just wanted to also mention (for whoever hasn’t seen them) a few sources I found helpful regarding value of information in particular:
Vaniver’s LessWrong post on VoI
How to Measure Anything, and lukeprog’s summary of the book
And then, to a somewhat lesser extent:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8w2hNT5WtDMzoaGuy/when-to-find-more-information-a-short-explanation
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xDiqYyqeqPo92PojS/5-second-level-case-study-value-of-information
https://www.col-ex.org/posts/value-of-information-calculator-explained/ (this is probably only useful for a particular subset of mathy people)
Thanks for this.
Just wanted to also mention (for whoever hasn’t seen them) a few sources I found helpful regarding value of information in particular:
Vaniver’s LessWrong post on VoI
How to Measure Anything, and lukeprog’s summary of the book
And then, to a somewhat lesser extent:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8w2hNT5WtDMzoaGuy/when-to-find-more-information-a-short-explanation
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xDiqYyqeqPo92PojS/5-second-level-case-study-value-of-information
https://www.col-ex.org/posts/value-of-information-calculator-explained/ (this is probably only useful for a particular subset of mathy people)