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)