timtyler comments on BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 07 February 2010 12:16:36PM *  5 points [-]

The actual quote is:

"...which of course violates the conjunction rule of probability theory - also known as Occam's razor - which says that a more complicated event cannot be more probable than an a strictly simpler event that includes the more complicated one."

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