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>> So if we want theories that are correct, yes, we should value simplicity. There is no a priori reason why simple theories should be correct. The suggestion
by glial 7y ago
>> So if we want theories that are correct, yes, we should value simplicity.
There is no a priori reason why simple theories should be correct. The suggestion that any model can be correct is presumptuous - you might call it an assumption ;-) To borrow from George Box, all models are wrong, but some are useful...
- deepnotderp 7y agoSure there is! The Universal Distribution is the ultimate prior, see for example, Solomonoff induction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_inductive_inference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_ind...