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

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Comment author: whpearson 11 August 2010 08:45:29AM *  0 points [-]

I had a different formulation, that suggested you stick with the first hypothesis you picked.

Now, x1 is a finite real number. So in order for this series to converge, there must be only a finite number of other terms in the series equal to or greater than x1. There will therefore be some complexity value, y1, such that all hypotheses with a complexity value different to y1 have an average probability of less than x1.