it’s not that shorter rules are intrinsically better, it’s that longer rules tend to have irrelevant junk in them. ceteris paribus, longer rules are better. it’

it’s not that shorter rules are intrinsically better, it’s that longer rules tend to have irrelevant junk in them. ceteris paribus, longer rules are better. it’s just most of the time the longer rules fall under the Blaise Pascal-ian “i regret i didn’t have time to make this shorter”.