if you have to choose between two explanations and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, choose the other one.
-Paul Graham
Is he basically proposing to do the opposite of Occam’s razor?
No, he’s correcting for a self-serving bias in the way humans generate explanations.
-Paul Graham
Is he basically proposing to do the opposite of Occam’s razor?
No, he’s correcting for a self-serving bias in the way humans generate explanations.