ArisKatsaris comments on Take heed, for it is a trap - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 15 August 2011 05:08:55PM 0 points [-]

Agreed. Instead of complexity, I should have probably said "specificity".

"Alice is a banker" is a less complicated statement than "Alice is a feminist, a banker, or a pianist", but a more specific one.