Dan_Moore comments on Kevin T. Kelly's Ockham Efficiency Theorem - Less Wrong
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The whole point of the KC is that it doesn't depend on the specific programming language (or Turing machine) selected except up to an additive constant. If your language contains a recursive feature, it will assign lower complexity to Fibonacci numbers than my non-recursive language does, but the difference is at most the codelength required for me to simulate your machine on my machine.
I see. Thanks.
Question: How many bits does adding a recursive feature take up?