Johnicholas comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong
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I like your point but not your example.
That isn't just a computational limitation. It's an outright bug. Something that assigns 0 to Z is just not even an approximation of a Bayesian. A sane agent with limited resources may, for example, assign a probability to "A,B,C and 'something else'". If it explicitly assigned an (arbitrarily close to) 0 to Z then it just fails at life.
Hi. I found the paper containing the example in question - it's Bayesians sometimes cannot ignore even very implausible theories. I don't understand everything in the paper, but it seems like they've anticipated your objection and have another example which explicitly includes a "Something else" case.