• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s either a razor owned by ocham (simple) or it’s a philosophical concept about decision making when presented with ideas of similar likelihood but varying complexity (complicated).

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      7 months ago

      The razor is about the option that requires the fewer assumptions.

      The first one implies that somehow, a lot of people are talking about the razor of one guy with a very uncommon name. It is a much more costly hypothesis than to consider that this “razor” is an abstract concept instead.