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

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Comment author: sark 07 February 2010 09:01:19PM 0 points [-]

Well I agree. In our everyday lives, Occam tells us to chose the simplest hypotheses. Conjunction rule tells us to keep any particular hypothesis we have as simple as possible.

Also, maybe we should apply conjunction rule first to our candidate hypotheses and then only Occam to chose the simplest among them. (of course, Occam by itself already picks out the simplest hypotheses, but i'm talking about a working procedure here)