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olalonde on July 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters

Kolmogorov complexity[0] solves this loophole :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

gowld on July 15, 2024 [–]

Kolmogorov complexity is an effort to wrangle it. It's impossible to fully solve.

You can change measured complexity by altering the baseline assumptions.

olalonde on July 16, 2024 | [–]

What do you mean by baseline assumptions? The low level computer instructions?

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