Anatoly_Vorobey comments on Understanding and justifying Solomonoff induction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 16 January 2014 02:44:46PM 2 points [-]

Sure, if that's the way you like it, but for me that just doesn't work. Occam's Razor is a principle that is supposed to help me think better here and now; to decide that its justification rests on whether, say, the Universe is discrete at Planck scale or not, when this choice has to be compatible with QM and Newtonian mechanics at larger scales and therefore doesn't change anything in practical terms in my life here and now - that seems absurd. To me, it's a clear evidence that this is no justification at all.