timtyler comments on Development of Compression Rate Method - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Daniel_Burfoot 20 May 2010 05:11PM

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Comment author: timtyler 21 May 2010 07:46:15AM 0 points [-]

That Wikipedia article mentions it by name, though. It says:

"One of the elements of any scientific utility function is the refutability of the model. Another is its simplicity, on the Principle of Parsimony also known as Occam's Razor."