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Care to elaborate or give a reference?
See http://lesswrong.com/lw/6fd/observed_pascals_mugging/4fky and the replies.
Okay, I didn't mean a literal Solomonoff prior; I meant "what your posterior would be after starting with a Solomonoff prior, observing the natural/human world at some length and Bayesian updating accordingly." The prior alone contains essentially no information!
Observations would merely shrink the tails by a multiplicative constant, they would not change the shape.