Humans and their silly ideas of what's complicated or not.
What I find ironic is that SI can be converted into a similarly terse commandment. "Shorter computable theories have more weight when calculating the probability of the next observation, using all computable theories which perfectly describe previous observations" -- Wikipedia.
Hrm.... I'm not sure if I can sufficiently state the speed prior in natural language faster than that, without some really good auctioneer training.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: