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Open Thread: December 2009 — LessWrong

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Open Thread: December 2009

by CannibalSmith

1st Dec 2009

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Occam's razor is dependent on a descriptive language / complexity metric (so there are multiple flavours of the razor).

Unless a complexity metric is specified, the first question seems rather vague.

Jayson_Virissimo16y00

Occam's razor is dependent on a descriptive language / complexity metric (so there are multiple flavours of the razor).

I think you might be making this sound easier than it is. If there are an infinite number of possible descriptive languages (or of ways of measuring complexity) aren't there an infinite number of "flavours of the razor"?