Johnicholas comments on Open Thread: September 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Johnicholas 07 September 2009 07:14:14PM 1 point [-]

You might find what you're looking for in Kevin T. Kelly's work:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kk3n/ockham/Ockham.htm

Dr. Shalizi mentioned it as an alternative formalization of Occam's Razor.

Comment author: cousin_it 07 September 2009 07:55:19PM *  0 points [-]

Johnicolas, thanks. This link and your other comments in those threads are very close to what I'm looking for, though this realization took me some time.