[Foundation-l] Astonished by the so-called principle of least astonishment

[Victor Vasiliev]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> B) Is there a philosopher aboard the plane ? Did-it not occur to
> anybody in the board that astonishment and knowledge are synonymous ?
> If you are against astonishment, you are against knowledge.

Hello Teofilo,

Imagine I open http://en.wikipedia.org, and see a large photo of penis
instead of the main page. Am I astonished? Yes. Do I learn something?
According to you, yes. Am I against knowledge if I oppose penis photos
instead of main page? According to you, yes.

--vvv