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

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Comment author: Unknowns 11 August 2010 07:15:07PM 1 point [-]

The claim you mention is a conclusion from standard probability theory.

The order can't be reversed, just as you can't reverse the order of the natural numbers to make them go from high to low. Yes, you could start at a google and count down to 1, but then after that you would be back at counting up again. In the same way every possible ordering of hypotheses will sooner or later start ordering them from simpler to more complex.