@aucksAdventures C & K claim that Occam's Razor is the simplicity bias. This is totally nuts otherwise but useful for people who only have negative results. Because these then purportedly prove they have evidence for a "cognitive bias" governing human
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What is the light that this paper casts for me? For context I’ll talk about an idea that @drculbertson and I have been thinking about for a while. https://t.co/yUDgaCqUFD
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@CarcassiFausto This is particularly relevant to discussions of regularisation and simplicity and something I think Jenny and I should have discussed more deeply in our paper on this. https://t.co/ruXmUQChKY
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But nevertheless, when the simplicity bias comes into contact with our species-specific propensity for a particular kind of cultural transmission, it leads to effects that are *highly specific* to language. https://t.co/yUDgaCqUFD 5/