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One of the great things about the internet is that there is a social group for almost every interest.  Pick an unusual hobby or ideology, an

(Warning: this post is a bit technical.) Suppose you are a Bayesian reasoning agent.  While going about your daily activities, you observe

Occam's razor, as it is popularly known, states that "the simplest answer is most likely to be correct"1.  It has been noted in other discus