From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 10 1999 - 12:33:19 MST
"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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