cousin_it comments on Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 September 2010 01:14:58PM 1 point [-]

Occam's razor still applies. If we're looking for the most elegant possible proof of a theorem (whatever that means), any sufficiently short proof is much more likely to be it than any sufficiently long proof. If you want to take a completely wild guess about what statement an unknown theorem proves, you're better off guessing short statements than long ones.

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 September 2010 01:34:50PM 0 points [-]

More emphasis on the most elegant possible.

Comment author: cousin_it 01 September 2010 01:48:34PM *  0 points [-]

Sorry for deleting my comment, I got frustrated and rewrote it. See my other reply to grandparent.

Comment author: wedrifid 01 September 2010 02:27:28PM 0 points [-]

Could you try to make that statement more precise? Because I don't believe it.

I don't believe it either, by the way.