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by goldenkey 1816 days ago
You want to use a razor to shave a bear. Simplicity is not enough to favor a belief model. Machine Learning has shown us that large complex models can perform much better at providing the ground truths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor

Razor's aren't scientifically rigorous theorems. Feel free to use them but don't argue by them in a public forum, it's disingenuous to truth.

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Pretty good point. People resort to occams razor as if it is a fundamental constant of nature valid in all cases. Occams razor has heuristic value not probitive value.