naasking comments on An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: naasking 08 March 2013 03:03:30PM -1 points [-]

(simplicity of the map) alone is sufficient to judge a theory- you also need to take into account the theory's parsimony (simplicity of the territory).

Solomonoff Induction gauges a theory's parsimony via Kolmogorov complexity, which is a formalization of Occam's razor. It's not a naive measurement of simplicity.