A significant fraction of the sequences (also known as Rationality: AI to Zombies) deals with exactly this issue. This article basically answers your question: https://lesswrong.com/posts/afmj8TKAqH6F2QMfZ/a-technical-explanation-of-technical-explanation
It seems to me that that piece has to do a lot of scaffolding because it doesn’t use the compression of ‘degrees of freedom.’ Eg your explanans has to have fewer degrees of freedom than the explanandum.
A significant fraction of the sequences (also known as Rationality: AI to Zombies) deals with exactly this issue. This article basically answers your question: https://lesswrong.com/posts/afmj8TKAqH6F2QMfZ/a-technical-explanation-of-technical-explanation
It seems to me that that piece has to do a lot of scaffolding because it doesn’t use the compression of ‘degrees of freedom.’ Eg your explanans has to have fewer degrees of freedom than the explanandum.