Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)
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Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)
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How so?
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Except the orthodoxy of COVID-19 vaccine efficiency happens to be scientifically accurate and evolutionary advantageous as well, which is the article's argument promoting Kolmogorov complicity. So let's retire this tired retread without the dignity of yet another thread.
Re: Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)
#6This was published in response to a lament about James Damore, in case anyone is wondering about the immediate context. The proximate issue was that women and men, on average / in aggregate, are different. But the general principles apply to other issues as well.
Re: Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)
#7Well, if you want to do it right, you don't just "not discuss" the orthodoxy, you go out of your way to make discussing the orthodoxy very clearly forbidden on the research circle. You put "we won't allow anybody to talk about lightning" on the first paragraph of your institution's code of conduct. You actively censor people discussing it, and do all you can to erase it from their history.
On a related matter, people actively insisting that you discuss the lightning issue may be consciously trying to do the exact opposite, and get you in trouble. And, of course, if discussing the orthodoxy gets people in trouble, that's a different issue from the orthodoxy itself and you may be more or free to talk about it, or maybe less, it has to be independently evaluated.
Re: Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)
#82017. Raised eyebrows for a moment because slatestarcodex moved to another url a year or so ago.
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#10In case you missed it, there is such a thing as "Kolmogorov complexity"; I guess the author is making an alliterative pun by titling the post "Kolmogorov complicity"