Jack comments on [SEQ RERUN] Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 10 September 2011 09:35:32AM 1 point [-]

.I also cannot resist noting, yet again, that all interpretation of QM that rely on solving the Schrodinger equation have exactly the same complexity, as estimated above, and so cannot be distinguished by the Occam's razor.

That way of formalizing Occam's razor, anyway.

Comment author: shminux 10 September 2011 04:47:59PM 2 points [-]

I would be happy to see a different formalization of it... What I have tried to use here is something like the Minimum Message Length formalism (only without the "Minimum" part, since it is not easily computable), which is, admittedly, a rather simplistic approach. Hopefully someone can do better.