… instead pursued the most practical course of action with a chance of getting them rescued...
One more thing; this is actually rational, and doesn’t violate occam’s razor. You should take the course of action with the highest P(this is true) * P(I can be rescued|this is true).
One more thing; this is actually rational, and doesn’t violate occam’s razor. You should take the course of action with the highest P(this is true) * P(I can be rescued|this is true).
You’re right, of course. The complication is that P(this is true) will be different for Occam’s Razor than for the other heuristics.