Manfred comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 25, chapter 96 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 25 July 2013 05:30:18PM 12 points [-]

Complexity means it requires additional things to happen even if you had no evidence.

For example, a more complex hypothesis than "Bob is a human" is "Bob is a human who lives at 123 Fake St."

Voldemort being called the dark lord is evidence, and learning about new evidence does not itself make a hypothesis more or less complex. It's just evidence.

Comment author: DubiousTwizzler 25 July 2013 05:41:54PM 11 points [-]

You're right. Thanks for the correction!

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 27 July 2013 05:54:45AM 0 points [-]

You seem to be saying "A is more complex than B means 'if A then B' ", which is not true. The commonly used term for this is "strength". "Bob is human who lives at 123 Fake St." is strictly stronger than "Bob is human".