Re: Hiveminds and the Great Filter

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
10 Mar 1999 20:33:19 +0100

"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:

> ASpidle@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > PLEASE EXCUSE MY IGNORANCE, BUT WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN Occam's Razor,
> > VMAOR and Schrodinger unitary evolution.
>
> Occam's Razor:
> The simplest explanation is always true.
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/OCCAMRAZ.html

No, not quite that: if there are two explanations that explain the same things equally well, choose the simplest one. (most likely Eliezer's short description is to be interpreted in the same way as the declaration :-)

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