My point was more that “people generally call both of these kinds of reasoning ‘Occam’s razor’, and they’re both good ways to reason, but they work differently.”
Oh, hmm, I guess that’s fair, now that you mention it I do recall hearing a talk where someone used “Occam’s razor” to talk about the solomonoff prior. Actually he called it “Bayes Occam’s razor” I think. He was talking about a probabilistic programming algorithm.
That’s (1) not physics, and (2) includes (as a special case) penalizing conjunctions, so maybe related to what you said. Or sorry if I’m still not getting what you meant
My point was more that “people generally call both of these kinds of reasoning ‘Occam’s razor’, and they’re both good ways to reason, but they work differently.”
Oh, hmm, I guess that’s fair, now that you mention it I do recall hearing a talk where someone used “Occam’s razor” to talk about the solomonoff prior. Actually he called it “Bayes Occam’s razor” I think. He was talking about a probabilistic programming algorithm.
That’s (1) not physics, and (2) includes (as a special case) penalizing conjunctions, so maybe related to what you said. Or sorry if I’m still not getting what you meant