Is there anywhere people violate Occam's razor more than when attributing motives to others? When attributing motives, ask "Is there a simpler explanation?" Whatever you come up with is more likely to be correct.
Why is it simpler to say that they want money rather than that they find the work interesting?
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And now we’ve found why Occam’s razor is not so useful in reality!
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Maybe not when predicting the motives of humans... but when a baseball goes through your window you probably don't assume it's raining baseballs
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is right on. It’s extremely privileged to be able to take work “because it’s interesting.” To most people, interest has nothing to do with work. Money is a much simpler motive
Occam’s razor doesn’t work bc ppl and brains and prior experience are complex. - Show replies
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I don’t think it’s true for everyone working towards solving a problem, yes money is imp, but here you get a whole lot of other people who think and act like you, they listen to your stuff, you figure out various ways to work on it. This is huge advantage.
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If the choices are: 1) money & interest 2) money then, (2) is simpler. To assume (1) is correct is to commit a conjunction fallacy.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy …
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Because it is extremely common for people to chase money and not interesting work and I guess people tend to draw from the experiences of people around them.
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Do you think MOST people are doing the work they find "interesting" or are they choosing work based on if it meets some set of financial obligations?
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Likely the latter. World is too damn complex and keeps changing to find your place. I wish I was born in the 1800's so then I could just be a slave laborer. Wait. No, now is better.
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And yet the truth is much closer to "partly for the money, partly because it's interesting, partly for other reasons, and it varies between people", even though that's much more complex than either. Because the complexity isn't a conjunction. Complex disjunctions are more likely
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How can this be, though? Reminds me of this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4txACqDWithRi7hs/occam-s-razor …pic.twitter.com/NTBRhl4eii
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