#occamsrazor — Public Fediverse posts

"How did ancient people living on different continents have similar technology if they had no contact?"

Say that last part again, starting with "if". Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to question that they had no contact before jumping straight to "it was aliens"? 🤔

Also, people are in fact capable of coming up with similar ideas independently. Many of our brains do work in similar ways.

#OccamsRazor

"How did ancient people living on different continents have similar technology if they had no contact?"

Say that last part again, starting with "if". Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to question that they had no contact before jumping straight to "it was aliens"? 🤔

Also, people are in fact capable of coming up with similar ideas independently. Many of our brains do work in similar ways.

#OccamsRazor

"How did ancient people living on different continents have similar technology if they had no contact?"

Say that last part again, starting with "if". Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to question that they had no contact before jumping straight to "it was aliens"? 🤔

Also, people are in fact capable of coming up with similar ideas independently. Many of our brains do work in similar ways.

#OccamsRazor

"How did ancient people living on different continents have similar technology if they had no contact?"

Say that last part again, starting with "if". Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to question that they had no contact before jumping straight to "it was aliens"? 🤔

Also, people are in fact capable of coming up with similar ideas independently. Many of our brains do work in similar ways.

#OccamsRazor

"How did ancient people living on different continents have similar technology if they had no contact?"

Say that last part again, starting with "if". Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to question that they had no contact before jumping straight to "it was aliens"? 🤔

Also, people are in fact capable of coming up with similar ideas independently. Many of our brains do work in similar ways.

#OccamsRazor

I know it's not in Dustin's financial interest to say so, but this gov't cares more about greased palms than alignment. Should Dario pull an Elon and start giving $$$ to voters in the midterms, Trump won't just override the freeze, but put Dario in the AI driver's seat for policy. #OccamsRazor

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z7oad4td5k4tfb4dttzjym7r/post/3mo7b6igf222i

Finding it hard to believe marketing experts are so clueless, and #OccamsRazor suggests a less pleasant, and very likely, explanation.

IndyCar’s ‘One Nation, One Race’ controversy is no surprise amid its rightward drift
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/14/indycar-shirt-trump-penske?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Finding it hard to believe marketing experts are so clueless, and #OccamsRazor suggests a less pleasant, and very likely, explanation.

IndyCar’s ‘One Nation, One Race’ controversy is no surprise amid its rightward drift
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/14/indycar-shirt-trump-penske?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Finding it hard to believe marketing experts are so clueless, and #OccamsRazor suggests a less pleasant, and very likely, explanation.

IndyCar’s ‘One Nation, One Race’ controversy is no surprise amid its rightward drift
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/14/indycar-shirt-trump-penske?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Finding it hard to believe marketing experts are so clueless, and #OccamsRazor suggests a less pleasant, and very likely, explanation.

IndyCar’s ‘One Nation, One Race’ controversy is no surprise amid its rightward drift
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/14/indycar-shirt-trump-penske?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Finding it hard to believe marketing experts are so clueless, and #OccamsRazor suggests a less pleasant, and very likely, explanation.

IndyCar’s ‘One Nation, One Race’ controversy is no surprise amid its rightward drift
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/14/indycar-shirt-trump-penske?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@jmcrookston @buo

After learning that HeLa cells moved in the air inside supposedly clean laboratories, I'm seeing the reasonable & parsimonious theory about the movement in air of all small things to be "It's airborne". A change to "Not airborne" should require experimental data for that specific material.

“Plurality should not be posited without necessity".
"Airborne infection" is the usual behaviour & "infection by droplet only for this material" needs specific evidence.
#OccamsRazor

@jmcrookston @buo

After learning that HeLa cells moved in the air inside supposedly clean laboratories, I'm seeing the reasonable & parsimonious theory about the movement in air of all small things to be "It's airborne". A change to "Not airborne" should require experimental data for that specific material.

“Plurality should not be posited without necessity".
"Airborne infection" is the usual behaviour & "infection by droplet only for this material" needs specific evidence.
#OccamsRazor

@jmcrookston @buo

After learning that HeLa cells moved in the air inside supposedly clean laboratories, I'm seeing the reasonable & parsimonious theory about the movement in air of all small things to be "It's airborne". A change to "Not airborne" should require experimental data for that specific material.

“Plurality should not be posited without necessity".
"Airborne infection" is the usual behaviour & "infection by droplet only for this material" needs specific evidence.
#OccamsRazor

@jmcrookston @buo

After learning that HeLa cells moved in the air inside supposedly clean laboratories, I'm seeing the reasonable & parsimonious theory about the movement in air of all small things to be "It's airborne". A change to "Not airborne" should require experimental data for that specific material.

“Plurality should not be posited without necessity".
"Airborne infection" is the usual behaviour & "infection by droplet only for this material" needs specific evidence.
#OccamsRazor

@jmcrookston @buo

After learning that HeLa cells moved in the air inside supposedly clean laboratories, I'm seeing the reasonable & parsimonious theory about the movement in air of all small things to be "It's airborne". A change to "Not airborne" should require experimental data for that specific material.

“Plurality should not be posited without necessity".
"Airborne infection" is the usual behaviour & "infection by droplet only for this material" needs specific evidence.
#OccamsRazor

Occam’s Grooming Tools

I’ve come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass Occam’s razor in favour of Occam’s epilator!

Occam’s Grooming Tools

I’ve come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass Occam’s razor in favour of Occam’s epilator!

This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #sciArt #histsci #mastoArt

This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #sciArt #histsci #mastoArt

This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #sciArt #histsci #mastoArt

This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #sciArt #histsci #mastoArt

This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #sciArt #histsci #mastoArt

@VeroniqueB99
Even if staged, I seriously doubt they would have informed him ahead of time. He can't keep a secret, and they would have needed him to "act natural"

But #OccamsRazor applies here. The simplest solution is likely true: a nervous/angry MAGA kid tried to shoot him & missed.

No need to turn it into another #KennedyAssassination.

@VeroniqueB99
Even if staged, I seriously doubt they would have informed him ahead of time. He can't keep a secret, and they would have needed him to "act natural"

But #OccamsRazor applies here. The simplest solution is likely true: a nervous/angry MAGA kid tried to shoot him & missed.

No need to turn it into another #KennedyAssassination.

@VeroniqueB99
Even if staged, I seriously doubt they would have informed him ahead of time. He can't keep a secret, and they would have needed him to "act natural"

But #OccamsRazor applies here. The simplest solution is likely true: a nervous/angry MAGA kid tried to shoot him & missed.

No need to turn it into another #KennedyAssassination.

@VeroniqueB99
Even if staged, I seriously doubt they would have informed him ahead of time. He can't keep a secret, and they would have needed him to "act natural"

But #OccamsRazor applies here. The simplest solution is likely true: a nervous/angry MAGA kid tried to shoot him & missed.

No need to turn it into another #KennedyAssassination.

@VeroniqueB99
Even if staged, I seriously doubt they would have informed him ahead of time. He can't keep a secret, and they would have needed him to "act natural"

But #OccamsRazor applies here. The simplest solution is likely true: a nervous/angry MAGA kid tried to shoot him & missed.

No need to turn it into another #KennedyAssassination.

I take this war at face value as a confession that the Epstein files child rape & battery accusation is true. #OccamsRazor

I take this war at face value as a confession that the Epstein files child rape & battery accusation is true. #OccamsRazor

I take this war at face value as a confession that the Epstein files child rape & battery accusation is true. #OccamsRazor

@TLisaB

Es ist zwar denkbar, daß in Wirklichkeit Faschos oder #WladimirPutin dahinterstecken, aber gemäß sowohl #HanlonsRazor als auch #OccamsRazor tippe ich auf durchgeknallte "linke" Spinnerʔinnen, die leider wirklich an das hohle Zeug glauben, was sie schreiben. So oder so hilft es der extremen Rechten.

Occam's razor is a principle stating that when faced with competing explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest explanation—the one with the fewest assumptions or entities—is usually the most likely to be true.

#AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #SciFiWriter #BookLovers #ReadersOfInstagram #IndieAuthor #Bookish #Occamsrazor #Occam

Occam’s?

I’ve come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass Occam’s razor in favour of Occam’s epilator!

#AucklandComedy #Comedy #ConspiracyTheorists #NZComedy #OccamSRazor

Sometimes, #sensemaking invokes #OccamsRazor https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/115045835684510281

Sometimes, #sensemaking invokes #OccamsRazor https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/115045835684510281

Sometimes, #sensemaking invokes #OccamsRazor https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/115045835684510281

Sometimes, #sensemaking invokes #OccamsRazor https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/115045835684510281

Sometimes, #sensemaking invokes #OccamsRazor https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/115045835684510281

Let us remember that #math can only prove that which has an underlying foundation (theory). Simply because it's complex doesn't make it right, quite the opposite: 2 = 1+1 = 1-0+1 = -1^2 - (1*1)+√4, etc... #KISS #OccamsRazor

Let us remember that #math can only prove that which has an underlying foundation (theory). Simply because it's complex doesn't make it right, quite the opposite: 2 = 1+1 = 1-0+1 = -1^2 - (1*1)+√4, etc... #KISS #OccamsRazor

Let us remember that #math can only prove that which has an underlying foundation (theory). Simply because it's complex doesn't make it right, quite the opposite: 2 = 1+1 = 1-0+1 = -1^2 - (1*1)+√4, etc... #KISS #OccamsRazor

Occam’s Razor: Why the Simplest Answer is Often the Best
https://wp.me/p84YjG-5Jd
#OccamsRazor #Simplicity #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #LifeSkills #ThinkingSkills #Mindset #Wisdom #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/occams-razor-simplest-answer/

Occam’s Razor: Why the Simplest Answer is Often the Best
https://wp.me/p84YjG-5Jd
#OccamsRazor #Simplicity #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #LifeSkills #ThinkingSkills #Mindset #Wisdom #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/occams-razor-simplest-answer/

Occam’s Razor: Why the Simplest Answer is Often the Best
https://wp.me/p84YjG-5Jd
#OccamsRazor #Simplicity #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #LifeSkills #ThinkingSkills #Mindset #Wisdom #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/occams-razor-simplest-answer/

Occam’s Razor: Why the Simplest Answer is Often the Best
https://wp.me/p84YjG-5Jd
#OccamsRazor #Simplicity #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #LifeSkills #ThinkingSkills #Mindset #Wisdom #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/occams-razor-simplest-answer/

It is wonderful to learn from the well respected and experienced #HarshMariwala #Chairman #Marico

5 #laws for founders
1. #ParkinsonsLaw : Time is elastic. Discipline is your edge.
2. #ChestertonsFence : Innovate, yes; but understand what you’re changing.
3. #LawofDiminishingReturns : Don’t brute-force growth. Calibrate it
4. #ParetoPrinciple : Not everything matters equally. Focus sharply.
5. #OccamsRazor : Simple scales. Simple sells. Simple succeeds.

Source : #HarshMariwala #LinkedIn