This makes you vulnerable to quining, like this:
Hypotheses that consist of ten words must have higher priors.
I'm hoping that when the hypotheses are written in a well defined computer language, this problem doesn't crop up. (you would think that after reading GEB I would know better!)
Of course there may be multiple fixed points or none at all, but it would be nice if there was exactly one.
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