Snowyowl comments on Frugality and working from finite data - Less Wrong
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How do you come up with astrophysical theories in the first place? Ask a human, an AI, or just test every single computable possibility?
The compression method doesn't specify that part; this shouldn't be considered a weakness, since the traditional method doesn't either. Both methods depend on human intuition, strokes of genius, falling apples, etc.