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

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Comment author: cousin_it 11 August 2010 09:23:31AM *  6 points [-]

No, the statement you're proving is also wrong. When you're summing an infinite series, the directions "toward zero" and "toward infinity" aren't symmetric: the terms of the series must become arbitrarily small as n goes to infinity, but they don't have to become small as n goes to zero. And it's impossible to enumerate hypotheses (using integers starting from 1) in order of decreasing complexity.