JGWeissman comments on The Strong Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 11 November 2010 09:19:31PM 0 points [-]

And a paperclipper with an anti-Occamian prior that does push the button is revealing a different answer to the supposedly meaningless question.

Either way, it is a assigning utility to stuff it cannot observe, and this shows that questions about the implied invisible, about the differences in theories with no observable differences, can be important.