"...way more ways a system can be disordered than ways it can be ordered...."
And probably even more than the 15 different ways John Tanner of the The Five Royales boasted he could get to his girlfriend's house on their record "Right Around The Corner" (Double meanings in R&B song lyrics personify Ockham and the Razor perfectly).
I like it. I would include this in proto-punk too, in a way: it has a ripping fast drum track with no time for BS, and both the music and lyrics are all up in your face.
I frequently think about Entropy when I’m scrambling eggs. Also packing. Takes an hour to pick the things you need for a week away from your own bed, stuff it all in a little box. Get to your hotel, boom! 5 minutes to unpack. My standard entropy viz to is our ever expanding universe. Imagine playing your Uno reverse card and getting all that stuff back in the big bang box
Ever dive into any of the cyclical universe hypotheses? If nothing else, they are very fun to imagine. I think I wanna write about cyclical universes soonish.
Please do, because I’ve never heard of it. I did hear that Google said the word ‘multiverse’ in their latest press release on Willow AI, so if related that puts Goatfury in Google class
Yeah, I've been around for a while now. There was a metal band in Brazil like 15 years ago w/the same name, but I haven't heard much about them lately.
Occam's razor is fraught with danger against intelligent adversaries. In situations where someone is to be framed or made into a patsy, the razor causes the wrong conclusion. It's often also used to dismiss evidence: "All the facts are too complicated, let's just ignore stuff that doesn't fit our explanation since it's not the simplest".
My first exposure to Occam's Razor - and to Sci-Fi author Theodore Sturgeon - was a short story of his named Occam's Scalpel. One of the best SciFi short stories I've ever read, and well worth the reader's time to look up and digest.
It is Occam's Razor that rules out most conspiracy theories. Also the Intelligent Design concept of life's origins.
So you're not even going to give my theory of Earth and all of its inhabitants being a holographic projection invented by the CIA to distract Glorg spies from infiltrating the Milky Way and stealing the Hydrocore a chance, then?
I mean, if you think the whole “Giant random explosion in space billions of years ago and the resulting formation of planets with one somehow developing complex life out of single-celled organisms” mumbo jumbo is “the simplest explanation,” then it sounds like the CIA has gotten up you, man. You're a part of their system now.
How do you know you're not part of the system too? Neo had no idea until he popped that pill. Now, I'm not suggesting taking a bunch of pills *per se*, mind you.
"...way more ways a system can be disordered than ways it can be ordered...."
And probably even more than the 15 different ways John Tanner of the The Five Royales boasted he could get to his girlfriend's house on their record "Right Around The Corner" (Double meanings in R&B song lyrics personify Ockham and the Razor perfectly).
This song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGSM-383HDM
Yep, that's the one. Lowman Pauling, the bass singer/guitarist, wrote most of their tunes, and he liked doing that in the lyrics...
I like it. I would include this in proto-punk too, in a way: it has a ripping fast drum track with no time for BS, and both the music and lyrics are all up in your face.
I frequently think about Entropy when I’m scrambling eggs. Also packing. Takes an hour to pick the things you need for a week away from your own bed, stuff it all in a little box. Get to your hotel, boom! 5 minutes to unpack. My standard entropy viz to is our ever expanding universe. Imagine playing your Uno reverse card and getting all that stuff back in the big bang box
Ever dive into any of the cyclical universe hypotheses? If nothing else, they are very fun to imagine. I think I wanna write about cyclical universes soonish.
Please do, because I’ve never heard of it. I did hear that Google said the word ‘multiverse’ in their latest press release on Willow AI, so if related that puts Goatfury in Google class
Well... I have googled an awful lot of things.
There you go. Does Google know you? If I google Goatfury are you an international brand?
Yeah, I've been around for a while now. There was a metal band in Brazil like 15 years ago w/the same name, but I haven't heard much about them lately.
#1 in my exhaustive testing. That's how you disambiguate yourself from ten thousand Andrew Smiths!
Occam's razor is fraught with danger against intelligent adversaries. In situations where someone is to be framed or made into a patsy, the razor causes the wrong conclusion. It's often also used to dismiss evidence: "All the facts are too complicated, let's just ignore stuff that doesn't fit our explanation since it's not the simplest".
Very true. It's a helpful heuristic, but only under the right circumstances. It's just one tool in the box.
Merry Christmas and this was a great article and read. Hope all is well.
Thanks so much, Steve! Miss you, buddy. Hope your Christmas was awesome.
My first exposure to Occam's Razor - and to Sci-Fi author Theodore Sturgeon - was a short story of his named Occam's Scalpel. One of the best SciFi short stories I've ever read, and well worth the reader's time to look up and digest.
It is Occam's Razor that rules out most conspiracy theories. Also the Intelligent Design concept of life's origins.
As you said, a very useful tool for thinking.
It's an incredibly helpful heuristic, and so powerful. I think I cut through like 80% of the noise with this rule.
So you're not even going to give my theory of Earth and all of its inhabitants being a holographic projection invented by the CIA to distract Glorg spies from infiltrating the Milky Way and stealing the Hydrocore a chance, then?
Fine!
Well, is this the simplest explanation? It doesn't have to be simple to be the simplest, IMO.
I mean, if you think the whole “Giant random explosion in space billions of years ago and the resulting formation of planets with one somehow developing complex life out of single-celled organisms” mumbo jumbo is “the simplest explanation,” then it sounds like the CIA has gotten up you, man. You're a part of their system now.
How do you know you're not part of the system too? Neo had no idea until he popped that pill. Now, I'm not suggesting taking a bunch of pills *per se*, mind you.
Hmmmm...pills DO offer the simplest explanation though. I am confused now.
Are you really confused, or is that just what the government wants you to think?
Are you really the government or is it the thinking that gets you confused?!