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27chaos comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: 27chaos 19 October 2014 06:37:51PM 1 point [-]

I think Occam's razor is best used when you have Model A and Model B, where Model B is identical to Model A except it has one extra idea in it. Comparing different models or different types of models through one's intuitions about simplicity alone is generally a bad idea.