paulfchristiano comments on A note on the description complexity of physical theories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 09 November 2010 05:42:36PM 3 points [-]

The length of the program description is not really the measure of how easy it is to make a correct prediction. In fact, the shortest program for predicting is almost never the one you should use to make predictions in practice, precisely because it is normally quite slow. It is also very rarely the program which is easiest to manipulate mentally, since short programs tend to be very hard for humans to reason about.