taw comments on The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 26 August 2010 10:58:13PM 1 point [-]

In the post, the word "hypothesis" is used to refer to events

Then title "complexity of a hypothesis" makes no sense. Events ("hypotheses" in post) have no complexity. Descriptions ("hypotheses" in my comment) have complexity.

Connection is between complexity of descriptions and probability of events, and it has none of the problems described in the post.