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Cutting Down Ockham's Razor via OpenMind Magazine [Shared]

We hear all the time that the simplest explanations are usually the right ones. This truth-testing idea—known as Ockham’s razor, after the English medieval philosopher William of Ockham—has been embraced by no less authorities than Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Today scientists invoke Ockham’s razor on topics ranging from Covid’s origins to cosmic dark matter, while folks debating a subject on social media regularly invoke it as their final arbiter. After all, why complicate something more than you need to? Isn’t it better to shave ideas down to their essential truths?

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/10/01/cutting-down-ockhams-razor-via-openmind-magazine-shared/

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Yet again, a major power outage was wrongly attributed to renewables and turned out to be caused by sloppy maintenance instead. #OckhamsRazor https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22eelnxjo

Unser #Universum befindet sich im Inneren eines Schwarzen Lochs - diese #Theorie finde ich sehr charmant. Sie passt zu den Beobachtungen, und kommt ohne die theoretischen Zusatzgrößen #DunkleMaterie und #DunkleEnergie aus.
Damit ist sie laut #OckhamsRazor deutlich logischer als die Idee eines #Urknall.

https://winfuture.de/news,151396.html

🔴 **Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony**

_“We review recent developments, including the surprising benefits of modeling with more parameters than data, the increasing appreciation of the context-sensitivity of data and misspecification of scientific models, and the development of new modeling tools.”_

M. Dubova, S. Chandramouli, G. Gigerenzer, P. Grünwald, W. Holmes, T. Lombrozo, M. Marelli, S. Musslick, B. Nicenboim, L.N. Ross, R. Shiffrin, M. White, E. Wagenmakers, P. Bürkner, & S.J. Sloman, Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (5) e2401230121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401230121 (2025).

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In this episode, I play a song by Ockhams Razor; I have been in radio since age 15 yet I can’t work a mike; summer continues to be good; driving across the state twice back to back is a mistake; bring tarps camping; bring can openers camping; bring channel locks for your inflatable kayak; I need to get better at camping; the kid wants to be an entrepreneur; I fired up the Ender 3 Pro for the first time in this house; it has been fun to revive the 3D printer; I love having robots do stacks of work for me; don’t be scared of the machine; electric cars are not more expensive to run than gasoline; I am coining the term “boxes in the alley argument”; I discuss how I am planning my decumulation strategies

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