Every science is a degenerate habit of thought. Magical thinking is the creative discipline of resisting the lure of that degeneracy. The best way to do that is to convince yourself that science has a general method to it. Methodicity is actually the mark of magical thinking.
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More generally compression as a measure of explanatory correctness is at odds with a methodological characterization of science. There’s in fact a result (google Chaitin’s omega) that suggests the whether an algorithm explaining some data is the most “elegant” is undecidable
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You’re saying following a repetitive method helps you avoid any “local maxima” of compression?
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