Zed comments on Take heed, for it is a trap - Less Wrong
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Who said anything about not having a prior distribution? "Let n be a [randomly selected] integer" isn't even a meaningful statement without one!
What gave you the impression that I thought probabilities could be assigned to non-hypotheses?
This is irrelevant: once you have made an observation like this, you are no longer in a state of total ignorance.
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