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> I do concede, ugliness is not the best guide, but it is something to consider when searching for a good description of nature Ugliness is a proxy for complex
by wyager 10y ago
> I do concede, ugliness is not the best guide, but it is something to consider when searching for a good description of nature
Ugliness is a proxy for complexity, and we should assign a lower prior probability to more complex theories. We should be (somewhat) more skeptical of theories that don't tickle our mathematical aesthetics.