JGWeissman comments on Tendencies in reflective equilibrium - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 21 July 2011 07:33:46PM 2 points [-]

I would disagree with your presumption.

If my presumption that the digits are not very compressible is wrong, then you have not really responded to Daniel's point about the ridiculous roundness of the number (where roundness is one way a number can be compressible).

Or I could say I got those digits randomly. That again simplifies the complexity, because generating that number was simple.

No. Getting "random" digits is not simple, or even an available action, for a deterministic generator. Saying to get "random" data can feel simple because you are just pointing at some source of data that you are ignorant about, but really, you have to account for the complexity of that source of data.