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shminux comments on [SEQ RERUN] Occam's Razor - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 10 September 2011 04:47:59PM 2 points [-]

I would be happy to see a different formalization of it... What I have tried to use here is something like the Minimum Message Length formalism (only without the "Minimum" part, since it is not easily computable), which is, admittedly, a rather simplistic approach. Hopefully someone can do better.