endoself comments on A potential problem with using Solomonoff induction as a prior - Less Wrong

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Comment author: endoself 09 April 2011 03:49:28PM 2 points [-]

I'm not talking about "this stage", I'm talking about what would happen in principle, after we make enough observations.

The uncomputable is always infinite. Our observations are always finite. I don't see how making such a leap could be justified.

Are you saying that you assign literally 0 probability to an uncomputable universe? How could you possibly be so sure? Remember there are an infinite number of possible computable universes, so there must be computable universes with probability less than epsilon, for all epsilon > 0.