Warrigal comments on Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 September 2009 07:02PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 November 2009 03:47:41AM 1 point [-]

"My observations are [...], which were output by a high-volume random experience generator". Since the task is to explain my observations, not to predict where I am. This way also makes it more clear that that suffix is strictly superfluous from a Kolmogorov perspective.

You are correct, though I believe your statement is equivalent to mine.

You mean less likely. i.e. there is no nonnegative monotonic-increasing infinite series whose sum is finite. Also, it need not happen for all large N, just some of them. So I would clarify it as: ∀L ∃N>L ∀M>N (((sum of probabilities of hypotheses of length M) < (sum of probabilities of hypotheses of length N)) or (both are zero)).

Right again; I'll fix my post.