Why should the Occamian prior work so well in the real world? It’s a seemingly profound mystery that is asking to be dissolved.
Is it? It seems a rather straightforward consequence of how knowledge works, as in information allows you to establish probabilistic beliefs and then probability theory explains pretty simply what Occam’s Razor is.
Is it? It seems a rather straightforward consequence of how knowledge works, as in information allows you to establish probabilistic beliefs and then probability theory explains pretty simply what Occam’s Razor is.
See my earlier reply to a similar comment.