Sewing-Machine comments on A Proof of Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 August 2010 03:28:04PM 1 point [-]

Yes a statement like "on average, X holds" needs to be quantitative in order to be useful in practice. Still, this is a valuable argument, especially as far as it clarifies what needs to be done to reach a quantitative refinement.