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Re:The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory by goldenkey on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:15AM (#27746300)
You want to use a razor to shave a bear. Simplicity is not enough to favor a belief model. Machine Learning has shown us that large complex models can perform much better at providing the ground truths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor

Razor's aren't scientifically rigorous theorems. Feel free to use them but don't argue by them in a public forum, it's disingenuous to truth.

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Re:The Case Against the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory by morpheos137 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:15AM (#27748893)
Pretty good point. People resort to occams razor as if it is a fundamental constant of nature valid in all cases. Occams razor has heuristic value not probitive value.
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