worlds in which Occam’s razor doesn’t work are worlds in which intelligent life probably couldn’t have evolved.
Can you elaborate or share a link? I would be suspicious of such an argument. To the contrary, I’d say, humans are very complex and also model the world very well. If there could exist simpler models of comparable accuracy, then human complexity would not have evolved.
a weak form of Occam’s razor, across a countable hypothesis space, is inevitable.
Absolutely true, but it’s a bit of a technicality. Remember that the number of hypotheses you could write down in the lifetime of the universe is finite. A prior on those hypotheses can be arbitrarily un-Occamian.
Can you elaborate or share a link? I would be suspicious of such an argument. To the contrary, I’d say, humans are very complex and also model the world very well. If there could exist simpler models of comparable accuracy, then human complexity would not have evolved.
Absolutely true, but it’s a bit of a technicality. Remember that the number of hypotheses you could write down in the lifetime of the universe is finite. A prior on those hypotheses can be arbitrarily un-Occamian.