It is more probable that A, than that A and B.
Occam’s razor
Conjunction fallacy
Burdensome details
Litany of Tarski
Litany of Gendlin
I can see the appeal here—litanies tend to have a particular style after all—but I wonder if we can improve it.
I see two problems:
This doesn’t convey that Occam’s razor is about explanations of observations.
In general, one explanation is not a logical “subset” of the other. So the comparison is not between A and A and B; it is between A and B.
A
A and B
B
Perhaps one way forward would involve a mention (or reference to) Minimum Description Length (MDL) or Kolmogorov complexity.
Current theme: default
Less Wrong (text)
Less Wrong (link)
I can see the appeal here—litanies tend to have a particular style after all—but I wonder if we can improve it.
I see two problems:
This doesn’t convey that Occam’s razor is about explanations of observations.
In general, one explanation is not a logical “subset” of the other. So the comparison is not between
AandA and B; it is betweenAandB.Perhaps one way forward would involve a mention (or reference to) Minimum Description Length (MDL) or Kolmogorov complexity.