gwern comments on Pascal's Mugging - Penalizing the prior probability? - Less Wrong
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What's the smallest un-interesting number? But isn't that a rather interesting number...
Graham's number may be interesting to us and aliens a lot like us, but so what? I doubt it's interesting over all or even most of, say, a Tegmark level IV multiverse.
Limiting your search is, I think, exactly why our current abstractions are a bad base for a universal prior like what is being discussed in the Mugging.