Given any explanation you can find arbitrarily many more complicated and wrong ones, combine that with the wild creativity people have and it’s no surprise we tend to overshoot.
Is a perfectly good justification for Occam’s Razor.
ETA: I haven’t downvoted you, btw. However, the karma for your comment might be improved if you paid more attention to things like run-on sentences which affect readability.
but I even explained in my comment (paragraph 3) why the principle strikes one as immediately obvious, and why that first impression is mistaken.
Is a perfectly good justification for Occam’s Razor.
ETA: I haven’t downvoted you, btw. However, the karma for your comment might be improved if you paid more attention to things like run-on sentences which affect readability.
Out of curiosity, have you read Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom? The explanation there is a little more thorough.
yes but not in a long time, it was good to read again, thanks.