thomblake comments on A Proof of Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 11 August 2010 03:12:30AM 0 points [-]

Hmm... maybe I was reading your claim as stronger than you intended. I was imagining you were claiming that property would hold for any finite enumerated subset, which clearly isn't what you meant.

Comment author: apophenia 11 August 2010 03:32:27AM 1 point [-]

If the sum of every term in a sequence after the Nth one is less than epsilon, then the sum of every term in any subsequence after the Nth one is also less than epsilon.

Comment author: thomblake 11 August 2010 03:42:16AM *  0 points [-]

Right, but that isn't what I meant - it is not necessarily the case that for every n, every hypothesis after the nth has probability less than that of the the nth hypothesis. Obviously - which is why I should have noticed my confusion and not misread in the first place.