Will_Pearson comments on Timeless Control - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 June 2008 05:16AM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 07 June 2008 08:49:19AM 2 points [-]

Yudowsky, I'm just applying parsimony/ockhams razor. If the configuration space is all that is needed to explain the next step, why do we also need to say, "a human controls the next state" as well. You are multiplying entities needlessly, going above the minimum message length, etc....