timtyler comments on A Request for Open Problems - Less Wrong
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It doesn't sound too serious - if all the candidate languages have the same problem.
It is hard to deny that some languages are better than other ones, and so therefore there is a set of "best" ones. The intent of my first question was more along the lines of: is one formulation of Occam's razor optimal for all the different situations in which Occam's razor is used - or should we be using different descriptive languages under different circumstances.