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I don't think this proves anything at a practical level, given that it requires us to deal with hypotheses of arbitrarily high complexity. It breaks down when dealing with finite values.
Suppose there is a finite complexity value W, beyond which no more complex hypotheses can actually be imagined by any being in our universe. Physics implies that there is such a W. Nothing in your argument implies that z1<W, though.
As I said to cousin it, I wanted a proof which would be valid in all possible worlds and valid according to every logically consistent assignment of priors, and for this reason, yes, in some possible worlds things would be as you say.