So when people say “the universal prior says that Maxwell’s equations are simple and Zeus is complex”, what they actually mean is that in their experience mathematical descriptions of natural phenomena have proved more fruitful than descriptions that involve agents
I thought it meant that if you taboo “Zeus”, the string length increases more dramatically than when you taboo “Maxwell’s equations”.
Sure, but stil somehow “my grandma” is more complex than “two plus two”, even if the former string has only 10 characters and the latter has 12. So now the question is whether “Zeus” is more like “my grandma” or more like “two plus two”.
I thought it meant that if you taboo “Zeus”, the string length increases more dramatically than when you taboo “Maxwell’s equations”.
Except that’s not the case. I can make any statement arbitrarily long by continuously forcing you to taboo the words you use.
Sure, but stil somehow “my grandma” is more complex than “two plus two”, even if the former string has only 10 characters and the latter has 12. So now the question is whether “Zeus” is more like “my grandma” or more like “two plus two”.