That simplicity in the information sense equates with parsimony is most unlikely; for one thing, simplicity is dependent on choice of language—an insight that should be almost intuitive to a rationalist.
You didn’t read that sequence at all, and probably don’t actually know what simplicity means in an information-theoretic sense.
To be fair, that sequence doesn’t really answer questions about choice-of-language; it took reading some of Solomonoff’s papers for me to figure out what the solution to that problem is.
To be fair, that sequence doesn’t really answer questions about choice-of-language; it took reading some of Solomonoff’s papers for me to figure out what the solution to that problem is.
There are a variety of proposed solutions. None of them seem perfect.
I’m referring to encoding in several different languages, which makes it progressively more implausible that choice of language matters.
I agree that’s not a perfect solution, but it’s good enough for me.