Chaitin’s Number of Wisdom. Knowledge looks like noise from outside.
To a large extent, but not quite exactly (which you probably weren’t trying to say), because of “thinking longer should make you less surprised”. From outside, a big chunk of alien knowledge looks like noise (for now), true. But there’s a “thick interface” where just seeing stuff from the alien knowledgebase will “make things click into place” (i.e. will make you think a bit more / make you have new hypotheses (and hypothesis bits)). You can tell that the alien knowledgebase is talking about Things even if you aren’t very familiar with those Things.
To a large extent, but not quite exactly (which you probably weren’t trying to say), because of “thinking longer should make you less surprised”. From outside, a big chunk of alien knowledge looks like noise (for now), true. But there’s a “thick interface” where just seeing stuff from the alien knowledgebase will “make things click into place” (i.e. will make you think a bit more / make you have new hypotheses (and hypothesis bits)). You can tell that the alien knowledgebase is talking about Things even if you aren’t very familiar with those Things.